US envoy decries China’s coast guard deployments

Washington believes China’s deployment of coast guard vessels to waters near Taiwan undermines regional stability, and has expressed its concerns to Beijing, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Wednesday.“It [the issue] always comes up in every one of our meetings because we obviously disagree with those actions, and we actually think that they run contrary to the spirit of what we’re trying to work out with them with regards to strategic stability,” Rubio told reporters during a media event in Manila.Rubio made the remarks when asked whether he had raised the issue during his meeting earlier in the day with Chinese Minister of Foreign Affairs Wang Yi (王毅) on the sidelines of the ASEAN summit. US Secretary of State Marco Rubio waves from atop the steps to his plane as he departs at N