Vice President Kamala Harris called out Beijing for undermining international rules-based order in the South China Sea on Aug. 24 in a speech on U.S. forign policy in the Indo-Pacific region. She delivered the speech in Singapore, the first stop of her Southeast Asia visit that will also include a trip to Vietnam. Her visit comes at a time when the United States is being targeted by a propaganda campaign by actors for the Chinese Communist Party, hoping to persuade nations to view the United States as an unreliable ally based on its chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan. “We know that Beijing continues to coerce, to intimidate, and to make claims to the vast majority of the South China Sea,” Harris said, adding that China’s claims in the disputed seas have been deemed “unlawful” in a 2016 international ruling that rejected Beijing’s territorial assertion. “Beijing’s actions continue to undermine the rules-based …
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