SINGAPORE – China slammed a video shared on social media by the US embassy in Singapore which criticizes Beijing’s South China Sea claims, comparing them to the actions of an inconsiderate neighbor who intrudes on others’ space.
The roughly 90-second video shows a government-built apartment block inundated with clutter, voiced over in a Singaporean accent.
“This happens right outside Singapore’s doorstep too, in the South China Sea, where one neighbour thinks he owns basically everything,” the narrator says, as the video cuts to a series of news clippings on China’s territorial disputes.
The post sparked a strident reaction from China’s embassy in Singapore late Wednesday.
In Southeast Asia, Brunei, Malaysia, the Philippines and Vietnam have partial claims to the sea.
Singapore’s foreign ministry said in a statement Wednesday that it rejects interference by foreign embassies.