France and Britain Will Turn the Warship into the South China Sea
France and Britain Will Turn the Warship into the South China Sea
France and Britain announced they would deploy their warships into the South China Sea region.
The statement was made by the respective state defense ministers at the annual Shangri-La Dialogue security conference in Singapore.
The French defense minister, Florence Parly, said the French maritime task force and British helicopters and ships will dock in Singapore next week.
Parly explained the task force would sail to "certain territory" in the South China Sea.
"Every time there is a warning to keep our warship away from 'territorial waters', the commander will reply to move on," Parly said.
In his view, the South China Sea claimed by China is an international water that anyone can enter.
Although France does not claim the area, according to Parly the deployment of warships was their contribution to enforce a shared commitment.
"With the adoption of freedom of navigation, we also place ourselves as the persistent party against any form of claim in the de facto region," he said.
In line with Parly, British defense minister Gavin Williamson said it would soon send three warships to ward off "adverse effects".
"We have to make sure that a country still has to stick to the rules, there are consequences if it breaks," Williamson said.
Director of the Center for Security Cooperation, Senior Colonel Zhou Bo said, the question of Beijing is whether the British and French ships will sail up to 12 nautical miles on the Chinese-controlled island.
"If they enter into the 12 nautical miles, then China will regard it as a deliberate provocation," Zhou said.
Earlier, United States defense minister Jim Mattis said China has been intimidating and coercive through militarization in the South China Sea.
The former general in the US Marine Corps received a report that China is building the military facilities of the Spratly Islands and Paracel.
Among other anti-warship missile systems, anti-air attack defense systems, electronic device network scramblers to the placement of strategic bombers.
"Although China says the opposite, the placement of this weapon system suggests they aim to intimidate and coercion," said Mattis.
Mattis' remarks were then repaid by the head of the Chinese delegation, Lieutenant General He Lei, by calling the US comment unfavorable.
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A stupid move. Sending ships as a demonstration will only make things work. There are always only two solutions to a conflict like this: diplomacy and war. Trying to do something in the middle is stupid.