{"id":9707,"date":"2011-07-21T01:07:23","date_gmt":"2011-07-21T01:07:23","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-07-21T01:07:23","modified_gmt":"2011-07-21T01:07:23","slug":"China-tries-to-ease-tensions-with-Southeast-Asia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/?p=9707","title":{"rendered":"China tries to ease tensions with Southeast Asia"},"content":{"rendered":"

China today sought to reassure Southeast Asian countries that it is a friendly neighbor<\/strong>, as all sides worked to ease tensions that spiked over a maritime territorial dispute.<\/p>\n

Chinese diplomats told their counterparts from the 10-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) at a summit in Bali that China was intent on improving ties<\/strong> that had soured recently over the South China Sea row.<\/p>\n

“We are determined to increase our co-operation with ASEAN countries. We’re looking to the future, we have a broad, bright future,” Chinese vice foreign minister Liu Zhenmin told reporters on the sidelines of the talks.<\/p>\n

“We want to be a good friend, good partner, good neighbor with ASEAN countries.”<\/p>\n

Liu made his comments shortly after Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi and his 10 ASEAN counterparts formally endorsed a set of category_idelines<\/strong> to lay the framework for a potential code of conduct in the South China Sea.<\/p>\n

ASEAN members Vietnam, the Philippines, Brunei and Malaysia, along with China and Taiwan, have overlapping claims to parts of the South China Sea<\/strong>, an area believed to hold vast oil and gas resources.<\/p>\n

The category_idelines approved on today were seen as a small but important circuit breaker after the Philippines and Vietnam had accused China of becoming increasingly aggressive<\/strong> in staking its claims to the South China Sea.<\/p>\n

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton arrived in Bali on Thursday night after a visit to India,<\/strong> where she called on the South Asian nation to take a more assertive leadership role in the region.<\/p>\n

Clinton’s comments were widely seen as reflecting a US desire for India to emerge as a counter-weight to China’s fast-expanding power.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Ahead of her arrival, Chinese vice foreign minister Liu spoke in detail about the economic benefits for Southeast Asia of closer ties with China.<\/strong><\/p>\n

“China is becoming the largest trading partner of ASEAN and ASEAN is becoming the third-largest trade partner of China,” Liu said.<\/p>\n

“So cooperation with China is increasing dramatically, developing very fast.”<\/p>\n

Source AFP<\/em>
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