U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Kurt Campbell expressed “serious concerns” over the Chinese regime’s “destabilizing actions” in the South China Sea during a phone call with his Chinese counterpart on Thursday, the State Department said.
Mr. Campbell’s phone conversation with China’s vice premier of foreign affairs, Ma Zhaoxu, is the latest in a series of interactions Washington said aimed at responsibly managing competition between the two rival powers.
The United States and communist China remain at odds on almost every front, ranging from trade to technology, human rights conditions in the mainland, and Hong Kong, to Beijing’s role in aiding Moscow’s war against Ukraine and the regime’s military aggression in the South China Sea….