{"id":9690,"date":"2011-07-18T23:07:20","date_gmt":"2011-07-18T23:07:20","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-07-18T23:07:20","modified_gmt":"2011-07-18T23:07:20","slug":"ASEAN-China-should-speed-up-talks-on-South-China-Sea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/?p=9690","title":{"rendered":"ASEAN, China should speed up talks on South China Sea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations)<\/strong> and <strong>China<\/strong> should hasten talks for a long-pursued code of conduct to govern actions in the fraught <strong>South China Sea<\/strong>, <strong>Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono said today<\/strong>.<br \/>\n<strong><br \/>\nA resolution of the dispute will send a &#8220;strong signal&#8221; to the world that the situation in the resource-rich region<\/strong>, seen by analysts as a potential flashpoint, is predictable and would contribute to regional stability, he said.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Indonesian leader noted that it took ASEAN and China 10 years to agree on a declaration for a code of conduct<\/strong>, and they have been discussing the category_idelines to implement the code for another nine years without agreement.<\/p>\n<p><strong>China, the Philippines, Vietnam, Brunei, Malaysia and Taiwan have overlapping claims to parts of the South China Sea including the Spratly islands.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The area is believed to be rich in oil and gas and is a crucial route for global shipping trade.<\/strong> The United States has defense pacts with Taiwan and the Philippines and claims a &#8220;national interest&#8221; in the free movement of shipping.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tensions have escalated in recent weeks, with the Philippines and Vietnam protesting over what they say are increasingly forceful Chinese actions in the area<\/strong>, which Beijing claims in whole based on disputed historical grounds.<\/p>\n<p><strong>ASEAN Secretary-General Surin Pitsuwan said the foreign ministers<\/strong> were expected to discuss the South China Sea issue today.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Recent incidents include Chinese forces allegedly opening fire on Filipino fishermen<\/strong>, shadowing an oil exploration vessel employed by a Philippine firm and putting up structures in areas claimed by the Philippines.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Vietnam<\/strong> voiced anger after a Chinese vessel cut the exploration cables of a Vietnamese survey ship in May, and Beijing condemned US-Vietnam naval exercises that began last week off Vietnam&#8217;s coast.<\/p>\n<p><strong>China staged its own military exercises in the South China Sea in June<\/strong> and announced plans to boost its offshore maritime patrol force.<\/p>\n<p>Not to be left out,<strong> Taiwan has said it is considering deploying missile boats in the waters and tanks on disputed islands<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>China wants to negotiate bilaterally with individual ASEAN claimants, while ASEAN wants to deal with China as a group. Beijing opposes ASEAN&#8217;s position because it will &#8220;internationalise&#8221; the issue.<\/p>\n<p>US Secretary of State State Hillary Clinton and Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi will attend the ASEAN Regional Forum.<\/p>\n<p><em>Source AFP<\/em><br \/>\n<!--break--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations) and China should hasten talks for a long-pursued code of conduct to govern actions<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":72448,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"magazineBlocksPostFeaturedMedia":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u-113x150.jpg","medium":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","medium_large":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","large":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","1536x1536":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","2048x2048":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","colormag-highlighted-post":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","colormag-featured-post-medium":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","colormag-featured-post-small":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u-113x90.jpg","colormag-featured-image":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","colormag-default-news":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u-113x150.jpg","colormag-featured-image-large":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","colormag-elementor-block-extra-large-thumbnail":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","colormag-elementor-grid-large-thumbnail":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","colormag-elementor-grid-small-thumbnail":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg","colormag-elementor-grid-medium-large-thumbnail":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg"},"magazineBlocksPostAuthor":{"name":"Admin","avatar":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/53e6cdc30765aade0129f85e5aeb50124b1d3f5bb9a70373be31e4eb328371e0?s=96&d=mm&r=g"},"magazineBlocksPostCommentsNumber":"0","magazineBlocksPostExcerpt":"ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations) and China should hasten talks for a long-pursued code of conduct to govern actions","magazineBlocksPostCategories":["News"],"magazineBlocksPostViewCount":149,"magazineBlocksPostReadTime":2,"magazine_blocks_featured_image_url":{"full":["https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg",113,170,false],"medium":["https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u.jpg",113,170,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/u-113x150.jpg",113,150,true]},"magazine_blocks_author":{"display_name":"Admin","author_link":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/?author=1"},"magazine_blocks_comment":0,"magazine_blocks_author_image":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/53e6cdc30765aade0129f85e5aeb50124b1d3f5bb9a70373be31e4eb328371e0?s=96&d=mm&r=g","magazine_blocks_category":"<a href=\"#\" class=\"category-link category-link-1\">News<\/a>","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9690","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9690\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/72448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}