Regional leaders also meet in Laos this week. Will the dream of stronger ASEAN language on China’s actions in the South China Sea finally see fruition?
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“During our fruitful bilateral meetings, President Yoon and I covered several areas of our cooperation, including defense and security, maritime cooperation, economic and development cooperation, and people-to-people exchanges. We agreed that we have made significant strides in advancing and deepening our bilateral cooperation towards the attainment of our mutually beneficial goals,” said Marcos during a joint press briefing in the Palace.
Both countries are trying to figure out a relationship with an increasingly belligerent superpower like China; both are treaty-allies of the United States; and both are facing existential threats. The threat is China’s encroachment of the West Philippines Sea and disregard of the 2016 Arbitral Award in the case of Manila, and, for Seoul, it’s North Korea’s ballistic missile launches and “rhetoric on the possible use of nuclear weapons.
Every year, the question most journalists ask is this: Are there updates to the Code of Conduct on the South China Sea? Will there be breakthroughs this year? So, no, we won’t see a COC signed in Vientiane. But there is something to look forward to: if and how ASEAN will address increasing tensions in the South China Sea.
More recently, Vietnam made public China’s “brutal treatment” towards Vietnamese fisherfolk in the Paracel islands. Chinese vessels and personnel chased down, boarded, then beat up the fishermen during the September 29 incident. Fisherfolk sustained broken bones and bruises because Chinese personnel beat them with metal sticks.
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