BANGKOK: China has urged the US military to “stop flexing muscles” in the disputed South China Sea, a point of persistent friction in a relationship both sides said was generally improving.
A spokesman for the Chinese ministry of defence, Col Wu Qian, told reporters in Bangkok yesterday that the South China Sea was among numerous issues discussed earlier in the day when US defence secretary Mark Esper held his first face-to-face meeting with Chinese defence minister Gen Wei Fenghe.
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