China Risks ‘Great Wall of Self-Isolation,’ Says U.S.
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Ashton Carter, U.S. secretary of defense, speaks during the IISS Shangri-La Dialogue Asia Security Summit in Singapore, on Saturday, June 4, 2016.
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China risks erecting a “Great Wall of self-isolation” in Asia over its actions in the disputed South China Sea, U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter told a global defense forum in Singapore.
“There is growing anxiety in this region, and in this room, about China’s activities on the seas, in cyberspace, and in the region’s airspace,” Carter said on Saturday in a speech to the Shangri-La security dialogue. He called China’s land reclamation in the South China Sea “unprecedented” and urged it instead to join the U.S. in cooperating on security in Asia.