US making ‘criminally dangerous’ accusations against China: Journalist
The United States feels threatened by China’s economic rise and is making “criminally dangerous” accusations about Chinese island construction in the South China Sea, an activist and journalist in Washington says.
“It’s not only hypocritical, it’s criminally dangerous for the US to accuse China of militarization of the South China Sea,” said Mike Billington, the Asia editor for the Executive Intelligence Review.
“There’s no militarization going on by the Chinese,” Billington told Press TV on Friday. “On the other hand, the US is sending missile destroyers, and B-52 bombers and other very advanced military ships and planes crisscrossing the region, claiming that they’re challenging the threat to freedom of navigation, which there is no threat to freedom of navigation to any commercial vessel.”
“In addition, the US is in the process of deploying the most massive military force in the world in history into numerous bases in the Philippines,” he added.
“This is a massive military ring around threatening China as they have been threatening Russia with war,” Billington noted.
“There is no threat coming from Russia or from China; they are trying to defend their countries and have the defense for their countries but we are faced with a massive threat coming from the United States for nuclear war coming from factions in our Defense Department.”
China and the US are at loggerheads over a number of issues, particularly the South China Sea dispute.
Beijing claims sovereignty over almost the whole of the South China Sea, which is also claimed in part by Taiwan, Brunei, Vietnam, Malaysia and the Philippines. The waters are believed to sit atop vast reserves of oil and gas.
Washington has sided with China’s rivals in the territorial dispute, with Beijing accusing the US of meddling in the regional issues and deliberately stirring up tensions in the South China Sea.
On Tuesday US Defense Secretary Ashton Carter warned China against "aggressive" actions in the South China Sea, including the installment of surface-to-air missiles on a disputed island.
“China must not pursue militarization in the South China Sea," Carter said in a wide-ranging speech at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco, California.
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