China Shifts To An Easing Mode While "Ex-China" Is On A Tightening Path
To attract Tesla, Bejing rewrote its rules for foreign auto businesses and offered tax incentives and cheap land. In return, the company would jump-start China’s homegrown electric-vehicle industry. But now, the auto giant is entering bumpier terrain.
Chinese government vessels continued to follow and photograph Philippine boats resupplying troops on a disputed South China Sea atoll on Tuesday, Manila said.
Philippine Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana said China promised not to intervene in its resupply missions to Second Thomas Shoal—part of a disputed archipelago.
The United States on Friday called Chinese actions in using water cannon against Philippine resupply boats in the South China Sea "dangerous, provocative, and unjustified," and warned that an armed attack on Philippine vessels would invoke U.S. mutual defense commitments.
"China has no law enforcement rights in and around these areas. They must take heed and back off," said Foreign Secretary Teodoro Locsin.
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The State Department on Friday warned China that it risks military action from the United States in response to Chinese coast guard efforts to block the resupply of a Philippines island outpost. The department said in a statement that the Chinese coast guard operation two days ago blocking Philippine resupply