Indonesia said it plans to intensify talks with other Southeast Asian countries and also with China to finalize a code of conduct on the South China Sea.
At the start of that meeting, Indonesian President Joko Widodo himself addressed the foreign ministers, as he reiterated his call in last year’s Asean summit that the regional bloc “should not be a proxy for any party.”
This prompted Beijing’s objection, as its Manila embassy warned the Philippines to “stay vigilant and resist from being taken advantage of and dragged into troubled waters.” Amid these tensions, negotiations on the COC—a proposed framework to help tackle territorial and maritime disputes in the waterway—have stalled for years, as some Asean states prioritized bilateral ties with China over a regional consensus.
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