Kerry making a fool of himself at ASEAN meeting: Analyst
An American geopolitical commentator says US Secretary of State John Kerry is just making a fool of himself at the ASEAN meeting in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, because it’s not Washington’s business to interfere in China’s territorial disputes with its neighbors.
Dean Henderson, an author and columnist at Veterans Today, made the remarks in an interview with Press TV on Wednesday, after Kerry urged his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi to stop “problematic actions” in the South China Sea.
Kerry and Wang discussed China’s construction of artificial islands in the waters of the South China Sea on the sidelines of the 10-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) gathering.
Washington accuses Beijing of undergoing a massive “land reclamation” program in the Spratly archipelago of the South China Sea, and says China’s territorial claims of the man-made islands could further militarize the region.
China’s territorial claims in the South China Sea overlap with those of Brunei, Malaysia, Vietnam, Taiwan, Japan and the Philippines.
“This Spratly Islands is a territorial dispute, it’s very simple. The Vietnamese aren’t happy about the Chinese moving there, or the Filipinos for that matter,” Henderson said.
But it’s not the United States’ business but they think it is their business, he added.
“So, Kerry is just making a fool of himself in this ASEAN meeting,” he noted.
Henderson went on to say that “the US playing the global cop is a problem. “
The US talks about the ASEAN as its pivot to the East, the analyst said. “We have to see how this pans out more.”
But “it looks the BRICS [Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa] is pivoting against the US,” he said.
“The US is a little behind the time… Kerry is still trying to project this notion that we’re still the global superpower,” he observed.
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