A US naval aircraft carrier sails through the South China Sea. Fighter jets are seen taking off from and landing on the naval vessel and flying over head.
s “nine-dash line” which is a vague, discredited borderline used by Beijing to claim nearly the entire sea overlaps with it with Vietnam’s UN backed claim. The US is primed to insure that China does not have full control over the vast hydrocarbon resources to be explored. The US State Department is aware of the value of the sea’s largely untapped oil and gas reserves, and the US’s interest in having its own oil companies involved in joint projects with Southeast Asian nations.
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