Kamala Harris: China is undermining key elements of the international rules-based order

U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris: China is undermining key elements of the international rules-based order

U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris meets with members of the U.S. Navy while on the USS Howard naval ship, at Yokosuka Naval Base, in Yokosuka, Japan, Sept. 28, 2022.

U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris blasted China’s foreign policy Wednesday in a speech outside Tokyo, saying Beijing’s aggressive behavior is threatening the “international rules-based order."

Harris made the comments in an address to U.S. service members aboard the USS Howard, a Navy destroyer docked at the Yokosuka Naval Base, the largest U.S. naval installation in the world.

“China is undermining key elements of the international rules-based order. China has challenged freedom of the seas. China has flexed its military and economic might to coerce and intimidate its neighbors,” said Harris.

Harris, who is in Japan to attend former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s state funeral, also criticized China’s “disturbing behavior in the East China Sea and in the South China Sea, and most recently, provocations across the Taiwan Strait.”

📷: Reuters