U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Friday that the U.S. refused to undermine the stability of the Chinese government’s controversial South China Sea reefs by establishing nature reserves.
“The United States and our Philippine allies refuse China’s Rubio said in a statement that it undermined plans to establish a “national nature reserve” on Scarborough Reef. ” Rubio said in a statement.
“Beijing Claiming Scarborough Reef is a nature reserve is another compulsive attempt to sacrifice neighbors, including preventing Filipino fishermen from entering these traditional fishing grounds, to promote widespread territorial and maritime claims in the South China Sea. ”
China’s State Council announced on September 10 that the country’s parliament has established a “natural reserve” on Scarborough Reef, which the government calls Huanglan Island.
A day later, China’s National Forestry and Grassland Government released a plan to preserve coral reefs.
China The reefs that destroyed the South China Sea in large scale during its island construction were blamed for moving millions of tons of sand from the seabed.
Chinese fishing also damaged giant clam crowds through deeper shallow trawls.
China Operation on Reef is part of continuing Beijing Rubio said in order to destabilize the regional situation.
Secretary calls on Chinese leaders to abide by a unanimous ruling of an international arbitral tribunal China’s Under international law, the move to control blockbusters in the South China Sea under the so-called nine dash lines is illegal.
Mr Rubio said China’s efforts to prevent Filipino fishermen from fishing on Scarborough Reef were also considered illegal, and the ruling was final and legally binding.
China Scarborough Reef China action is From Beijing Use legal warfare to promote its control over the strategic South China Sea.
The sea is home to an estimated $50 trillion in foreign trade every year, and ChinaThe islands have been recovered at sea since the early 2010s, and in recent years, anti-ships and air defense missiles have been militarized.
In a May report on Chinese law, the Indo-Pacific Command pointed out that satellite images showed China’s ecological destruction in the Scarborough Shoal.
“Although China claims in 2024 that the environmental conditions in Scarborough Shoals are ‘excellent’, open source intelligence shows that in the South China Sea, CCP-sponsored ecological destruction is linked to the giant clam shell trade.”
“China’s destructive fishing technology in the Scarborough shoal is more than an isolated example – indeed, the 2016 tribunal noted that the court’s experts also observed from satellite images that the emergence of Kuatron, Kuatron, Kuatron, Rift, Gavin, Cover, Gaines, Gaine and the ships above, caused huge damage, and damaged heavy ships, causing huge damage, causing heavy ships, causing huge damage, causing heavy ships, causing huge damage, causing heavy ships, causing huge damage,” the report said.
China’s nature reserve seems to be Beijing To harden the artificial exclusion zone near Scarborough, this could be a prelude to another island construction plan ChinaAnalysts said.
The Philippine Foreign Ministry protests the reserve plan.
In response, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Lin Ji’an said that reefs are Chinese territory and nature reserves are being implemented China’s sovereignty.
“China Not accepting unreasonable allegations or so-called protests from the Philippines and urge the Philippines to immediately stop its infringement, provocation and reckless hype to avoid adding complex factors to the maritime situation. ”
