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Title:
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Shifting US policy leaves Asian allies at sea
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Author:
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SIMON ROUGHNEEN
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Source:
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Nikkei Asian Review
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Date:
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June 13, 2018
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Description:
- SINGAPORE -- China has long bristled at the U.S. Navy’s “freedom of navigation operations” in the South China Sea, which challenge Beijing’s territorial claims in the disputed waters. So when Zhao Xiaozhuo, a senior colonel in the Chinese army, found himself with a chance to complain about them directly to U.S. Secretary of Defense James Mattis recently, he took it.