【英文】美国参议院“两党对华全面法案”《2021年战略竞争法案》（282页）

英文研究报告 2021年04月20日 06:50 管理员

In the South China Sea, the PRC has executed an illegal island-building campaign that threatens freedom of navigation and the free-flow of commerce, damages the environment, bolsters the PLA power projection capabilities, and coerces and 16 intimidates other regional claimants in an effort to advance its unlawful claims and control the waters 18 around neighboring countries. Despite President Xi’s September 2015 speech, in which he said the PRC was not militarizing the South China Sea, during the 2017 19th Party Congress, President Xi announced that ‘construction on islands and reefs in the South China Sea have seen steady progress’.