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(REUTERS) Laos is set to welcome world leaders ahead of an annual summit as it increased security on the streets of capital Vientiane on Monday (September 5). The ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asia Nations) and East Asia Summit (EAS) will bring together leaders from the 10-nations regional bloc and their dialogue partners like United States, China, Russia, Japan and Australia to discuss international issues in a three-day meeting. Topics such as South China Sea […]
(Reuters) — China’s Prime Minister Li Keqiang proposed a friendship treaty with Southeast Asian countries and offered $20 billion in loans on Thursday (November 13) but held firm on the line that Beijing will only settle South China Sea disputes directly with other claimants. China, Taiwan and four members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) have competing claims in the sea where concern is growing of an escalation in disputes. “We are willing, on the basis of unanimous agreement, to soon reach an […]
China has found itself embroiled in two separate incidents surrounding maritime disputes. In the South China Sea, Vietnam’s navy tried to stop Chinese oil drilling, while Filipino police detained a Chinese fishing boat. Tensions threatened to flare between China and the governments in Vietnam and Philippines on Wednesday over existing maritime disputes in the oil- and natural gas-rich South China Sea. The Vietnamese government reported on Wednesday that one of its ships had hit a […]
