Interview: U.S. stirs up tension in South China Sea, Sudanese expert

The South China Sea crisis is yet another piece of evidence of that the U.S. interventionism hurts other countries' stability, a Sudanese strategic expert said here.

"During long decades, the successive U.S administrations tended to create crises in many regions of the world" to implement hegemony said Dr. Mohamed Hassan Saeed, a political analyst and lecturer of political science at a number of Sudanese universities.

He pointed out that the South China sea dispute was not a major issue until the United States moved into the scenario and encouraged the Philippines to adopt a hard line stance.

"It was possible to reach satisfactory solutions for the South China Sea disputes through dialogue and negotiation, but the U.S. encouragement was what pushed the Philippines to unilaterally demand an international arbitration," Saeed said.

A consensus solution is still possible for the issue as long as the United States stays away from it, he said.

The government of former Philippine President Benigno S. Aquino III filed the arbitration against China in 2013, despite the agreement his country had reached with China on resolving their disputes in the South China Sea through bilateral negotiations.

Earlier this week, a Hague-based ad hoc tribunal's arbitral denied China's long-standing historical rights in the region. China has said the award is invalid and will neither accept nor recognize it.

"America should not mess around this vital region of the world. This is a stable, vital and important region for the world trade, and America would be the biggest affected party if the crisis flared at the South China Sea," he noted.

The United States has adopted the policy of intervention in international affairs since the Cold War, using various pretexts to justify its meddling in other countries' business, Saeed said.

The invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan are the "living models for that American strategy (interventionism)," he added.

"The United States claimed Iraq had nuclear weapons and invaded Iraq, which was later proven to be a sheer lie; and a recent British report on the Iraq war (The Chilcot Report) embodied a clear condemnation of the US-British conduct," the expert said.

As for Afghanistan, he said, the world's only superpower has occupied the country for many years under "the pretext of combating terrorism."

"In Sudan's case, for instance, America is responsible for what has been inflicted on us: the political, economic and service difficulties during long decades of unjust siege and unilateral sanctions, and even military aggression," noted Saeed. Endi