Tag: Li Kequiang

South China Sea installations ‘primarily’ civilian: Li

SYDNEY, Australia (AFP) — China is not militarizing the disputed South China Sea, the country’s premier insisted in Australia on Friday, claiming defence equipment Beijing has installed on artificial islands is “primarily” for civilian use. The sea is a source of growing regional tension, with Beijing insisting it has sovereignty over virtually all the resource-rich waters, which are also claimed in part by a handful of other countries, and deemed international waters by most of […]