US Secretary of State
Mike Pompeo on Saturday said that the dispute over China Sea must be resolved
through international law. Clearing the deck on the US’s policy on the same,
Pompeo said, “United States’ policy is crystal clear. South China Sea is not
China’s maritime empire. If Beijing violates international law,  and free nations do nothing, history shows
CCP will simply take more territory”.

“China Sea disputes
must be resolved through int’l law: US Secretary of State,” he added.

Pompeo on Friday
called upon “free nations” to triumph over the threat of what he said
was a “new tyranny” from China. “Today China is increasingly
authoritarian at home, and more aggressive in its hostility to freedom
everywhere else,” Pompeo said in a California speech that laid a stark view
of Washington’s rivalry with Beijing.

“If the free
world doesn’t change Communist China, Communist China will change us,” he
said at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library in Yorba Linda, California. In
strident language that recalled the US Cold War with the Soviet Union, Pompeo
said Beijing had taken selfish advantage of US and Western generosity as it
implemented reforms and joined the global economy in the past four decades.

He strongly
criticized previous US administrations for being too complacent with China and
US companies for being too compliant with whatever Beijing demands of them. And
he said Beijing had broken international commitments on Hong Kong’s autonomy,
on the South China Sea and on stopping state-backed intellectual property
threats.

“There can be no
return to past practices just because they’re comfortable, or convenient,”
he said. “We can no longer ignore the fundamental political and
ideological differences between our countries, just as the CCP has never
ignored them,” he said.