China taking `self-isolating` steps in South China Sea - Pentagon

  23 January 2016    Read: 1279
China taking `self-isolating` steps in South China Sea - Pentagon
The United States is not looking for conflict with China but steps it is taking in the South China Sea are self-isolating and prompting other countries to seek help from Washington, U.S. Defense Secretary Ashton Carter said on Friday.
"I`m not one of those people who believes conflict between the United States and China is inevitable, it`s certainly not desirable, I don`t think it`s likely," Carter said at the World Economic Forum in Davos.

"We don`t seek to ask people to take sides. We do know that people are coming to us increasingly. Why is that? It is because China is taking some steps that I fear are self-isolating, driving towards a result that none of us wants," he said, in reference to Chinese measures in the South China Sea.

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