So a potentially alarming confrontation looms. Mr Carter demanded that China and the other claimants implement an “immediate and lasting halt” to land-reclamation projects. China shows no sign of doing this. And America is under pressure to go further in testing the “freedom of navigation”. Also at the dialogue was a delegation of senators, led by John McCain, an Arizonan and chair of the senate’s Armed Forces Committee. At a press conference, Mr McCain dismissed Chinese territorial claims to the sea around the man-made islands and encouraged American forces to continue their activities.
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