Kamala Harris rebukes China in major speech on Indo-Pacific

US Vice President Kamala Harris delivers a speech at Gardens by the Bay in Singapore (Evelyn Hockstein/Pool Photo via AP)

Vice President Kamala Harris has delivered a sharp rebuke to China for its incursions in the South China Sea, affirming that the US will support its allies in the region against Beijing’s advances.

In a major foreign policy speech in Singapore on Tuesday in which she laid out the Biden administration’s vision for the Indo-Pacific, Ms Harris said: “We know that Beijing continues to coerce, to intimidate and to make claims to the vast majority of the South China Sea.