Along with fulminating against the United States, China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi reasserted China’s South China Sea claims, blasted Japan for its past aggression and covered a wide range of other issues during his annual meeting with journalists. Wang called South China Sea tensions a “shadow play” said electronic scam centers in northern Myanmar targeting Chinese victims have been cleared out, and had scathing words for U.S. involvement in issues in the Indo-Pacific, playing on long-time complaints that speak to China's ambitions to supersede the U.S. as the center of regional power.
