David Wroe ‘US admiral issues blunt warning over Chinese maritime expansion’ The Sydney Morning Herald, 06.10.15
The commander of the United States’ massive Pacific Fleet has warned that if bullying behaviour at sea of the kind shown by China is not confronted, it will spread to land and become a “friction point” there.
Admiral Scott Swift used a speech to a navy conference in Sydney to deliver a thinly veiled insistence that Beijing would not get away with its island-building and maritime coercion in Asia. …
Continuing a trend that has increasingly seen senior US figures use Australian soil to deliver blunt messages to Beijing…