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US to ASEAN: Reconsider deals with blacklisted China firms

by Associated Press
| September 10, 2020 2:03 AM

HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo asked Southeast Asian nations Thursday to reconsider deals with Chinese companies blacklisted by Washington for building island outposts he says Beijing is using to “bully" rival claimants in the disputed South China Sea.

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