{"id":147534,"date":"2018-06-28T05:56:55","date_gmt":"2018-06-28T05:56:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/english\/china-wont-give-up-one-inch-of-territory-says-president-xi-to-mattis\/"},"modified":"2018-06-28T05:56:55","modified_gmt":"2018-06-28T05:56:55","slug":"china-wont-give-up-one-inch-of-territory-says-president-xi-to-mattis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/english\/china-wont-give-up-one-inch-of-territory-says-president-xi-to-mattis\/","title":{"rendered":"China won&#8217;t give up &#8216;one inch&#8217; of territory says President Xi to Mattis"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure>                                  <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Chinese President Xi Jinping (R) meets with United States Secretary of Defense James Mattis at the Great Hall of the People on June 27, 2018 in Beijing, China.\" src=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/320\/cpsprodpb\/CCF9\/production\/_102237425_gettyimages-987185258.jpg\"\/>Image copyright                  Getty Images<figcaption>Image caption                                      Mr Mattis (L) met with President Xi during his three day trip to China                              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"caps\">China is committed to peace but will not give up &quot;even one inch&quot; of territory, President Xi Jinping has said, after talks with visiting US Defence Secretary James Mattis.<\/p>\n<p>Tensions between both countries are mounting over trade hostilities and China&#039;s increasingly assertive claims to territory in the South China Sea. <\/p>\n<p>Mr Mattis is the first Pentagon chief to visit China since 2014. <\/p>\n<p>It&#039;s part of a trip across Asia, meeting several regional US allies.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Mattis said his talks with Mr Xi in Beijing and other officials on Wednesday had been &quot;very, very&quot; good, adding that the US was assigning a &quot;high degree of importance to the military relationship&quot; with China.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Xi added that China had peaceful intentions, but reasserted his view that there would be no concessions from China about what it considers to be Chinese territory.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;We cannot lose even one inch of the territory left behind by our ancestors,&quot; Mr Xi said, according to Chinese state media. &quot;What is other people&#039;s we do not want at all.&quot;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Why is the South China Sea contentious?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>The &#039;globalisation&#039; of China&#039;s military power<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The US has repeatedly criticised China&#039;s movements in the South China Sea, accusing it of intimidating its neighbours and militarising the area, by building up facilities on artificial islands. <\/p>\n<p>Several countries have competing claims in the disputed sea, but China claims the largest portion of territory, saying its rights go back centuries.<\/p>\n<p>The area is a major shipping route, and a rich fishing ground, and is thought to have abundant oil and gas reserves.<\/p>\n<p>The defence secretary&#039;s tour comes after a historic summit in Singapore which saw US President Donald Trump meet North Korean leader Kim Jong-un.<\/p>\n<p>After Beijing, he will travel on to South Korea and Japan, where he is expected to pass on reassurances about the US post-summit security commitment to the region.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image copyright Getty ImagesImage caption Mr Mattis (L) met with President Xi during his three day trip to China China is committed to peace but will not give up &quot;even<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":147535,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-147534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147534\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/147535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}