(MENAFN- Kuwait News Agency (KUNA)) China on Wednesday dismissed the remarks of Philippine President Benigno Aquino on the South China Sea disputes and urged him to stop his provocation, the official Xinhua News Agency reported.
"I'm shocked about such ridiculous and unreasonable comments and strongly oppose them," Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying was quoted as saying at a press conference in Beijing.
During his speech in Tokyo earlier in the day, Aquino compared China to Nazi Germany with regard to the two countries' territorial disputes in the South China Sea and called on the US to play a role in stopping China's rising might.
"The prosperity of maritime and coastal East and Southeast Asia, which relies greatly on the free movement of goods and peoples, is at risk of being disrupted by attempts to redraw the geographic limits and entitlements outside those clearly bestowed by the law of nations," Aquino said.
Responding to Aquino's remarks, Hua further said: "It is the Philippines who colluded with countries outside the region and smeared China for its own interests. The Philippines has illegally occupied some of China's islands in the South China Sea since the 1970s." China insists sovereignty over most of the resource-rich South China Sea, including the oil-rich Nansha (Spratly) Islands that are also claimed by the Philippines, Taiwan, Brunei, Malaysia and Vietnam.
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