That said, Wang acknowledged that theirs is "a complicated and diversified relationship." Wang's visit also comes a week after an international outcry over newly discovered Chinese missile installations on Woody Island on the Paracel island chain in the contested South China Sea. The United States and Japan raised concerns about China's deployment of HQ-9 air defense missiles, with Vietnam going to the United Nations secretary general to complain that China had violated its national sovereignty. Taiwan also claims the Paracels, one of two disputed Asian island chains that China says it owns. The competing countries are vying for rich fishing resources and potential undersea oil deposits in an ...
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