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ASEAN presses China for talks
BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN
– Southeast Asian leaders
last week called for urgent
talks with China to ensure
that increasingly tense
territorial disputes over
the South China Sea did
not escalate into violence.
The 10-member
Association of Southeast
Asian Nations (ASEAN)
wrapped up a two-day
summit in Brunei on April
25 with a chairman’s
statement in
which they
emphasised
t h e
importance
of “peace, stability and
maritime security in the
region”.
Brunei’s Sultan Hassanal
Bolkiah, the host of the
talks, told reporters after
the summit that the leaders
wanted to “urgently work
on a code of conduct” with
China aimed at defusing
tensions over the strategic
maritime region.
The flashpoint South
China Sea issue dominated
the meeting, amid growing
concern among some
Southeast Asian countries
over China’s increasing
aggression in laying claim
to the waters.
China says it has
sovereign rights to nearly
all of the South China Sea,
which is believed to sit atop
huge deposits of oil and gas.
It is also home to some of
the world’s busiest shipping
lanes and richest fishing
grounds.
ASEAN members the
Philippines, Vietnam,
Malaysia and Brunei, as
well as Taiwan, also claim
parts of the sea.
The competing claims
have for decades made the
area one of Asia’s potential
powder kegs for military
conflict. China and Vietnam
fought battles in 1974 and
1988 for control of islands
that left dozens of soldiers
dead.
Tensions have risen
again in recent years as
China has used increasingly
aggressive diplomatic and
military tactics to assert its
authority.
Among the actions that
have caused alarm were
China’s occupation of a shoal
close to the Philippines’
main island last year and
the deployment last month
of Chinese naval ships to
‘ China was never enthusiastic about a code of conduct. ’
within 80 kilometres (50
miles) of Malaysia’s coast.
ASEAN endured
unprecedented infighting
last year as the Philippines
and Vietnam failed to
persuade the bloc to send a
united message of concern
to China.
Cambodia, a close China
ally that held the rotating
chair of ASEAN in 2012,
blocked the efforts of the
Philippines and Vietnam.
Southeast Asian leaders
said last week’s summit
had successfully led to a
regained sense of unity
within ASEAN on the issue,
with Philippine President
Benigno Aquino praising
his Brunei host for deft
diplomacy that helped build
a consensus.
Nevertheless, analysts
said ASEAN’s calls for
China to agree on a legally
binding code of conduct for
the sea would
likely lead
nowhere.
A S E A N
and China
first agreed to work on
a code in 2002, but the
Asian superpower has since
refused to discuss it further.
“China was never
enthusiastic about a code
of conduct, as it does not
want to sign an agreement
that will constrain its
sovereignty-building
activities,” Ian Storey, a
senior fellow at the Institute
of Southeast Asian Studies,
told AFP. – AFP
Asia
April 29 - May 5, 2013
The top US military officer, General Martin Dempsey,
with his Chinese counterpart, General Fang Fenghui,
at a joint news conference in Beijing on April 22.
Dempsey, on his first visit to China since becoming
chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff in October last
year, told the news conference that the US sought to
be a “stabilising influence” in the Asia-Pacific region
and to have a stronger relationship with China. Fang,
the chief of the People’s Liberation Army general staff,
said the armed forces of the two countries needed
to deepen cooperation. “The Pacific Ocean is wide
enough to accommodate us both,” he said. Pic: AFP
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