An international court already decided that China holds no legitimate claim over most of the south china sea. U.S not hiding from them so they're not worried about them detecting u.s on radar.

All it means is Uncle Sam has balls Of steel made in USA

China is a barking dog only, where got courage?

Both Indonesia and the Philippines joined Pompeo in calling on China to abide by an international arbitration court ruling in 2016 that disqualified many of China’s claims.

Malaysia’s foreign ministry declined to comment.

Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson Zhao Lijian reiterated China’s position that it has had effective jurisdiction over the islands, reefs and waters of the South China Sea for more than 1,000 years.

He said at a daily briefing Tuesday that China is not seeking to build a maritime empire.

“The United States is not a country directly involved in the disputes. However, it has kept interfering in the issue,” the Chinese Embassy in Washington said on its website. “Under the pretext of preserving stability, it is flexing muscles, stirring up tension and inciting confrontation in the region.”

Other governments avoided direct comment on the U.S. announcement. The Philippine presidential spokesperson, Harry Roque, noted that the two powers would woo his country as they escalate their rivalry, but “what is important now is to prioritize the implementation and crafting of a code of conduct to prevent tension in that area.”

James Chin, head of the Asia Institute at the University of Tasmania in Australia, said the U.S. stance was nothing new because it has always rejected China’s “nine-dash line,” as its claim to the South China Sea is known.

“What is new is that Trump has sort of made the South China Sea a new focus point for his confrontation with China,” he said.

Tensions between Washington and Beijing continue at a heightened state over several other issues, including the coronavirus pandemic, China’s policy in Hong Kong and Tibet, trade and human rights.

China accused the U.S. on Tuesday of trying to sow discord between China and the Southeast Asian countries with which it has long-standing territorial disputes in waters that are both a vital international shipping lane and home to valuable fisheries.

Monday’s change to U.S. policy in the South China Sea comes after two carrier strike groups joined by an Air Force B-52 bomber operated together in those contentious waters earlier this month.

Those movements prompted outrage from Beijing and veiled threats in reference to the country’s so-called “carrier killer” missiles.

“The world will not allow Beijing to treat the South China Sea as its maritime empire,” Pompeo said, according to the AP. “America stands with our Southeast Asian allies and partners in protecting their sovereign rights to offshore resources, consistent with their rights and obligations under international law. We stand with the international community in defense of freedom of the seas and respect for sovereignty and reject any push to impose ‘might makes right’ in the South China Sea or the wider region.”

U.S. policy has previously called for maritime disputes between Beijing and its neighbors to be resolved peacefully through international arbitration.

But Monday, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said in a statement that the United States now sees virtually all Chinese maritime claims outside its internationally recognized waters to be illegitimate, the Associated Press reported.

“As long as some countries continue to claim and assert limits on rights that exceed their authority under international law, the United States will continue to defend the rights and freedoms of the sea guaranteed to all,” 7th Fleet said. “No member of the international community should be intimidated or coerced into giving up their rights and freedoms.”

In a statement, the Navy’s Japan-based U.S. 7th Fleet said Tuesday’s FONOP “upheld the rights, freedoms, and lawful uses of the sea recognized in international law by challenging the restrictions on innocent passage imposed by China, Vietnam and Taiwan.”

Several of the Spratlys are claimed by countries abutting the South China Sea.

US warship sails contested waters in South China Sea after White House rejects China’s maritime claims there

A day after the White House announced it would reject nearly all of China’s maritime claims in the South China Sea, the U.S. warship Ralph Johnson steamed through the contested waters Tuesday, according to U.S. 7th Fleet officials.

The guided-missile destroyer navigated near the Spratly Islands, a network of islands and man-made atolls created by Beijing in recent years and militarily fortified to bolster China’s claims that such territory is theirs, not international waters.

But the United States and other western powers continue to contend the busy waters are international, resulting in displays like the Ralph Johnson freedom of navigation operation, known in mil-speak as a FONOP.

That’s a joke, the US under President Trump need to repatriate the pharmaceutical industry that was exported to China under Clinton-Bush-Obama.

Have to agree with that

Follow the money

This is not sad, as they fall victim to CCP china banana republic politics. This is plain criminal!

THE REAL DEAL DREAM IS COMING TRUE ONE BY ONE STAY TUNE GUYS......

看看那些找名人代言的廣告就知道，说到來是心里作用

Already here, I'm in klang from seremban & it looks like fogging when i reached here.

脑残奴才祸贱行动党恶犬吠话反对

hahaha

白痴

wow

China xi是小人不是一个做大事的人做鬼都不灵

Morning goodiewilly

wow

謝謝澳州 ，澳洲最最最喜蕃華人了 ，又是港人夢寐以求的民主國家 ，想離開香港的港人有福了

Parliament can declare Amnesty for illegal immigrants who came in by a certain cutoff deadline. The cutoff deadline can be fixed at nine years before the decision to offer Amnesty.

The onus is on illegal immigrants in Malaysia to prove that they qualify for Amnesty, if declared and offered.

Amnesty would facilitate the gov’t to give illegal immigrants an identity. It may be by way of Special Pass, renewable yearly, before moving on to green MyKads. They can be given a Certificate of Identity to enable them to travel.

The illegal immigrants who came in the last nine years can be given three months grace to leave the country. If they fail to do so, the gov’t has no choice but act within six months against them or risk those involved being considered by their home countries as “having lost their citizenship”.

By the way ‘Who let them in and sustained their presence with countless amnesty exercises?’

QueenElizebeth IV , our people are suffering from what that we have to treat these illegals worst than dogs? What are you talking about? Which religion are you from coz that really tells us your mentality.

Couldn't even control Covid-19 at home, you want to control other country?

川普致函聯合國 美國正式退出世界衛生組織

美國國務院和聯合國週二 (7 日) 表示，川普政府已正式致函聯合國秘書長古特瑞斯 (Antonio Guterres)，宣布美國正式退出世界衛生組織 (WHO)，並於 2021 年 7 月 6 日起生效。

聯合國秘書長發言人杜加里克 (Stéphane Dujarric) 週二提到，川普政府週一向秘書長古特瑞斯寄出退出 WHO 通知，美國將在一年內退出世衛。美國國務院受訪時稱，美國將繼續尋求對 WHO 的改革。

美聯邦參議院外交委員會主席孟南德茲 (Robert Menendez) 週二透露，美國國會已收到通知，在疫情大流行之際，川普總統已正式讓美國退出 WHO。

美國向來是 WHO 最大資助國，每年提供 4 億至 5 億美元的強制性和自願捐款，目前美國還欠世衛組織約 2 億美元的當期和過往會費。根據退出條款，美國必須先履行對 WHO 財務義務，然後才能正式確定退出。

美國總統川普 5 月 29 日宣布，美國將退出 WHO，理由是世衛未能在 30 天之內做出實質性的重大改革，美國將永久性的撤出資金。

川普曾多次指控世衛搞砸防疫，而且立場卻偏袒中國，忽視新冠病毒 (COVID-19) 疫情的種種警告訊號，造成了世界極大的損失。

美國前副總統、民主黨參選人的拜登曾表示，他支持世衛組織，並於週二承諾，如果他在 11 月美國總選大選擊敗川普，美國將重新加入 WHO。

拜登稱：「當美國致力於強化全球健康體系時，美國人民才會更安全，若我當選，我將在就任首日讓美國重返 WHO，並恢復我們在世界舞台上的領導地位。」

traderstrades , Then invest more and more in Arbb lo, very bright future in Arbb... Japan has much more older people and they have negative interest

Can we get the impeachment process going again, post haste?

That is Trump exposes the hypocrisy of what’s always been the heart of the parties of men like him. This is their truth.

Somehow you cannot believe your government can be so evil, and then it is.

For generations, people from all over the world have chosen to come to US colleges and universities, providing those educational institutions with much needed tuition revenue, adding to our nation's expertise in science, technology, medical, engineering, and many other fields, exposing US students to international viewpoints, and extending our nation's influence across the globe.

Few other nations have this advantage, but leave it to the Trump administration to totally squander it. The next president should reverse this asinine policy -- and also defund ICE.

China不在。生意更好。ccp滚吧

haha sorchai!

共产党还有法官制度吗？习皇帝说了算啊！

Lets do this!!!!

Abothen?! Still slow slow ah? Race against time !!!!!

Arbb iot machine lai lai lai +++ UP UP UP!

Pls dont mention that old heck. He is culprit in keeping all these folks poor so they will toe umno line. It is him also that keep these folks illiterate so they forever obey to umno.

china citizen, please help to Eat all the locusts !!!!

FancyMe , What RM1000?
When you are a VIP or a brat of a child of another brat of a first generation immigrant, you pay only RM800!

Iam the happiest person that my kids are going to school,

China always Blame Blame Blame all he can do is blame x3

If US wants to start a world war. Go for it

What a disgrace china today!!!