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Biden backs Trump rejection of China's South China Sea claim

by Matthew Lee
| July 14, 2021 12:09 AM

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration on Sunday upheld a Trump-era rejection of nearly all of China's significant maritime claims in the South China Sea. The administration also warned China that any attack on the Philippines in the flashpoint region would draw a U.S. response under a mutual defense treaty.

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