The U.S. state department 14 warned to China, China should not use bilateral talks for the south China sea to sovereign nations to take divide and conquer strategy. A spokesman for the U.S. state department newland in China's foreign minister Yang jiechi this month's visit to Indonesia, Malaysia and brunei asean after three kingdoms made the above argument. Ap 15 says, newland in Washington Tuesday news conference said: "now the United States the most concern is the sovereign acoustic cable tension between China intensifies, the United States hopes that it can reach an agreement the parties need to meet."
The Associated Press said, in the last month asean meeting the final stage, Cambodia, the Philippines and Vietnam in involved in dealing with China dispute occurs when the file quarrel. And the United States to China in the south China sea tensions upgrade to establish three shashi and three sand garrison command expressed dissatisfaction. Newland said, the United States has been promoting asean and China's commitment to reach south China sea behavior standard, the area is home to the world's most busy waterway and rich mineral resources, bilateral diplomatic policy is a good idea, "but divide and conquer, in the sound line between countries gain competitive advantage approach is not we this path".
Newland so-called "divide and conquer" means that China in resolving the south China sea issue has been taken in the bilateral settlement mechanism. China has been opposed to the south China sea issue of sovereignty internationalization, advocate dispute between countries bilateral negotiations. China earlier has said the United States multilateral solution comment. China's foreign ministry in April this year, points out that the south China sea dispute shall be the sound line countries resolved through peaceful negotiations, and emphasize the formulation of the south China sea code of conduct "would consist of China and asean countries direct negotiations.
The Associated Press says, the United States says it will not in the south China sea between sound SuoFang choose edge station, but as a Pacific countries, the United States to maintain the peace of the interests of the state where safety appeal. The New York times recently also KanWen says, through China's political and ship acoustic SuoHaiQuan, on the south China sea is tough. Have analysis pointed out that although the multiple claims on the south China sea will remain neutral, but the United States is the state council last week published a statement to condemn China's "aggravate tensions in the south China sea".
