US: China rules for disputed seas ‘provocative’

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WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. says new restrictions by Chinese authorities on other countries’ fishermen in the disputed South China Sea are “provocative and potentially dangerous.”

The regulations took effect this month. They require foreign fishermen to ask China’s permission to operate within most of the vast, strategic waterway.

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