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Australia: China destabilising South China Sea
Australian Defence Minister David Johnston says the government is "very concerned" by China's "destabilisation" of its neighbourhood in some of the strongest words yet over rising tensions in Asia.
Senator Johnston backed tough words by his US counterpart, Defence Secretary Chuck Hagel, at a fiery conference in Singapore that one analyst says has hammered home growing security fears about the region.
Speaking from the Shangri-La Dialogue on Sunday, Senator Johnston said "the US, Australia and Japan are very concerned that unilateral action is destabilising the region of the South China Sea particularly, and East China Sea".
He added that countries such as Vietnam and the Philippines shared this concern and that this had come through in discussions at the meeting.
Read more at The Sydney Morning Herald
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