The claims that china has made in those waters that this really needed to be resolved at u. N. Backed arbitration so this is a complete departure from that standpoint the u. S. Secretary of state in his statement as well as tweets as you mentioned coming out very strong cues in china of bullying accusing china of being completely unlawful of its claims and making clear that the United States is now standing with its Southeast Asian partners in terms of moving forward that they have been concerned for some time about what they call chinas increasing assertiveness and have completely rejected the claims now and again this is something that we had expected but what we see is this kind of tit for tat that has been going on for days we heard from the National Security adviser Robert Obrian as late as late last week saying that we could expect tough action towards china its clear that this is the intention of the administration to send a very strong message restrictions on being imposed on c
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Have already exceeded the highest 80 tallies reported by any european country so far the total number infected in florida is now nearing 270000 with more than 4000 people having died almost 135000 people have died across the United States mike hanna is in washington d. C. Well there is an absolute crush from hospitals within florida in particular counties in particular in Miami Dade County for example the intensive care units are now at 100 percent capacity they are unable to accept any further patients so this is a picture being repeated in various parts of the state as this massive surge in corona virus infections continues now a startling statistic is that the doubling of the testing in florida it has doubled from 25250000 per day but the real statistic in all of this is that a month ago only 5. 2 percent of those tested were proving positive in the last week that figure has risen to nearly 20 percent now this makes a lie out of president s trumps plame that these increase in cases
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