China is getting more aggressive in the South China Sea in warning to the US, Philippines, and Taiwan
The US is in 'serious competition' with China; the Biden administration has asserted that it will counter Beijing’s 'aggressive and coercive' actions, sustain its key military advantages and restore America’s vital security partnerships.
The relations between the US and China is at an all-time low. The two countries are currently engaged in a bitter confrontation over various issues, including trade, the origins of the pandemic, aggressive military moves in the disputed South China Sea, human rights, Philippines, and Taiwan, the self-governing democracy that China claims as its own territory and threatens to bring under its control by military force.
China resents US support for Taiwan and the US military presence in the South China Sea and what it sees as a broad-based US campaign to restrain its growth.