(UPDATE) WASHINGTON: A senior United States Department of State official said Washington will oppose any attempt to block US access to the South China Sea.

"We expect to be in the South China Sea as we have been," Amy Archibald, State Department director of the Office of the Maritime Southeast Asia, told visiting Filipino journalists on Wednesday.

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