{"id":2382,"date":"2018-11-14T16:07:44","date_gmt":"2018-11-14T16:07:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/eastasiaandoceaniablog\/?p=2382"},"modified":"2018-11-14T16:07:44","modified_gmt":"2018-11-14T16:07:44","slug":"asean-and-china-tout-progress-over-south-china-sea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/eastasiaandoceaniablog\/2018\/11\/14\/asean-and-china-tout-progress-over-south-china-sea\/","title":{"rendered":"ASEAN and China tout progress over South China Sea"},"content":{"rendered":"

Code of conduct’ has been under discussion since at least 2002, as China builds structures on disputed outcrops at sea.<\/p>\n

Leaders from Southeast Asia and China say they’re making progress in keeping the peace in the disputed South China Sea as they work towards a “code of conduct” to govern navigation routes and other activities in the area.<\/p>\n

Speaking at the annual summit of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) in Singapore on Wednesday, Chinese Premier Li Keqiang said the region has set a good example of managing territorial disputes and keeping the peace as it works towards an agreement.<\/p>\n

“We have found the way to properly manage and defuse differences, for example, on the issue of the South China Sea in the past years,” Li said.<\/p>\n

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He added the situation was moving towards “greater stability” with progress on a single draft text on a code of conduct and hopes of having a final agreement within three years.<\/p>\n

‘Serious miscalculation’<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte said he wanted at “all cost” to set rules governing behaviour in the disputed seas.<\/p>\n

Duterte told reporters relations between China and its neighbours in Southeast Asia were “excellent” and\u00a0friction was between Western nations<\/a>\u00a0and China. But he said a code of conduct was needed to avoid any “serious miscalculation”.<\/p>\n

The United States has recently sent destroyers through the South China Sea on what it calls “freedom of navigation” operations – manoeuvres that have riled Beijing and nearly led to ship collisions.<\/p>\n

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The 10 members of ASEAN agreed to start negotiations on a code of conduct in the South China Sea in 2002, but little progress has been made amid rising tensions in the area, which is a crucial trade route for international shipping and thought to be rich in natural resources.<\/p>\n

China claims almost the entire sea for itself and has built substantial structures on disputed outcrops and reefs in recent years.<\/p>\n

The Philippines, Malaysia, Brunei, Vietnam also claim parts of the sea, as does Taiwan.<\/p>\n

Tensions over the maritime region have boiled over at previous ASEAN summits.<\/p>\n

In 2012, at the meeting in Cambodia, discussions ended without a joint statement for the first time in the organisation’s history amid differences over the South China Sea.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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