US not looking to 'militarise' Asia

Name: US not looking to 'militarise' Asia
Uploaded: 2015-06-01T12:36:57.000Z
Duration: 1 min 14 s
Description: The US Defence Secretary has said that the rising tensions in the South China Sea will not stop US military operations in the Pacific 'at all'

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The US Defence Secretary has said that the rising tensions in the South China Sea will not stop US military operations in the Pacific "at all".

Ashton Carter said the US was not looking to militarise the situation, but that "nothing" would stop its operations in the region.

He spoke in an exclusive interview to the BBC's Katty Kay in Vietnam.

World

1 June 2015