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WASHINGTON: A senior US official on Tuesday likened China’s state enterprises to Britain’s colonising East India Company as Washington takes a tougher stance against Beijing in the dispute-rife South China Sea. A day after Secretary of State Mike Pompeo branded most of Beijing’s claims in the sea illegal, his top aide for East Asia denounced a proliferation of rigs, survey …

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