Foreign ministers from the Group of Seven (G7) advanced economies said they strongly opposed provocation in the East and South China Seas, where China is locked in territorial disputes with nations including the Philippines, Vietnam and Japan. In the latest verbal exchange on who controls the vital trade waterways, China said it had not seen the G7 statement, but that countries in the region were seeking to promote stability and that disputes were being “exaggerated”, Reuters reports. Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Lu Kang hit back saying the G7 shouldn’t be taken hostage by the “selfish interests of certain countries.”
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