BEIJING - Hitting hard at the US over its statements on the South China Sea, China's official media Monday condemned Washington for "trouble making" with one of the top newspapers asking it to "shut up" and stop meddling in other countries' affairs.
A commentary in the overseas edition of the People's Daily - the Communist Party mouthpiece came after the US State Department said it was "closely" monitoring increased tensions in the South China Sea.
"The statement by the US side confuses right and wrong, strongly misleads public opinion, sends the wrong signal and should be sternly refuted. We can completely shout to the US: Shut up," said the commentary in People's Daily, an offshoot of the ruling Chinese Communist Party's top newspaper.
"How can meddling by other countries be tolerated in matters that are within the scope of Chinese sovereignty?"
The domestic edition of the newspaper, China Daily, was equally condemning, in its editorial and accused the US of "outright trouble making" and said Washington had "deservedly evoked curses".
"Fanning the flames and provoking division, deliberately creating antagonism with China, is not a new game," said a commentary in the People's Daily domestic edition. "But of late Washington has been itching to use this trick."
"If the White House is interested in restoring peace in the South China Sea, it should talk the real trouble-makers into behaving. The truth, however, is that it has been instigating the other countries in the disputes and even arming them, while blaming China for its defensive moves."
The US has expressed concern over China's move to militarize a disputed island in the South China Sea.
"In particular, China's upgrading of the administrative level of Sansha City and establishment of a new military garrison there covering disputed areas of the South China Sea run counter to collaborative diplomatic efforts to resolve differences and risk further escalating tensions in the region," State Department deputy spokesman Patrick Ventrell said in a statement Friday.
The Chinese Foreign Ministry condemned the statement a day later and said it summoned the Deputy Chief of Mission of the US embassy in Beijing Robert Wang to make "serious representations" about the issue.
Foreign Ministry spokesman Qin Gang repeated that China had absolute sovereignty over much of the sea and its myriad islands, and had every right to set up a city for the region, which it did last month.
Sansha City, over which China has gained controlled since a battle in 1974 with Vietnam, lies in the Paracel Islands. Taiwan also claims the islands, whose population numbers only a few thousand, mostly fishermen.
China lays claim to the whole of a U-shaped swathe of the South China Sea, overlapping areas claimed by the Philippines, Vietnam, Taiwan, Brunei and Malaysia. The territory is thought to be holding significant oil and gas reserves.
Sansha city was established in June as China's administrative base for the whole South China Sea area, including the disputed territories of the Spratly Islands and the Scarborough Shoal.
Source: http://www.nepalnews.net/index.php?sid/208058728/scat/b8de8e630faf3631
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