Secretary of State Hillary Clinton delivered a speech at a news conference during the ASEAN Regional Forum in Hanoi, Vietnam, Friday. Pool photo by Na Son-NguyenU.S. Challenges China on Island Chain -- New York Times
HANOI, Vietnam — Opening a new source of potential friction with China, the Obama administration said Friday that it would step into a tangled dispute between China and its smaller Asian neighbors over a string of strategically significant islands in the South China Sea.
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, speaking at an Asian regional security meeting in Vietnam, stressed that the United States remained neutral on which regional countries had stronger territorial claims to the islands. But she said the United States had an interest in preserving free shipping in the area and would be willing to facilitate multilateral talks on the issue.
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