The latest talks will take place against a backdrop of increased diplomatic protests against China from the Philippines, which has increased overtures to Western powers like the US and Australia to counter what it calls China’s 'aggressiveness.'
JAKARTA, Indonesia – Negotiations on a code of conduct for the South China Sea will be intensified this year, Indonesian and Chinese officials said on Wednesday, February 22, as the region frets over China’s assertiveness in the strategic waterway.
“Indonesia and ASEAN would like to produce an effective, substantive and actionable ,” Retno said, referring to the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, a regional bloc that Indonesia chairs this year. China and ASEAN countries agreed in 2002 to work towards creating a code of conduct and it was 15 years before moves were underway to create a framework for negotiations.
The latest talks would take place against a backdrop of increased diplomatic protests against China from the Philippines, which has increased overtures to Western powers like the United States and Australia to counter what it calls China’s “aggressiveness”.“New cold war and competitiveness of great powers shouldn’t appear in the Asia-Pacific region.
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