China urged the European Union to beryllium "objective and fair" and cautious with words and actions connected issues successful the South China Sea, aft the bloc remarked connected an incidental that occurred implicit the weekend.
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China urged the European Union to beryllium "objective and fair" and careful with words and actions on issues successful the South China Sea, aft the bloc remarked connected an incidental that occurred implicit the weekend.
China said it was "strongly dissatisfied" with the European Union's "accusations" against it connected the issue, a connection by the Chinese ngo to the EU showed.
"The European Union is not a enactment to the South China Sea issue and has nary close to constituent fingers connected the issue," it said.
It besides said the EU's repeated "hyping up" connected the state of navigation issue "has nary benefits to the EU's ain interests and international credibility".
China and the Philippines exchanged accusations of intentionally ramming seashore defender vessels successful disputed waters of the South China Sea on Saturday, the latest successful an escalating bid of clashes.
The collision adjacent the Sabina Shoal was their 5th maritime confrontation successful a period successful a longstanding rivalry implicit the captious waterway.
The EU said successful a Sunday connection that it condemned the "dangerous actions by China Coast Guard vessels against lawful Philippine maritime operations" successful the sea.
In the statement, the European Union External Action Service said the caller incidents betwixt Chinese and Philippines authorities "endanger the information of beingness at sea, and violate the close to state of navigation and overflight to which each nations are entitled nether planetary law."
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