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Southeast Asian foreign ministers gather in Laos this week for talks on the disputed South China Sea and the conflict in Myanmar, with top diplomats from China and the United States slated to meet on the sidelines.
Beijing claims the waterway – through which trillions of dollars of trade passes annually – almost in its entirety despite an international court ruling that its assertion has no legal basis. Beijing and Manila later reached an agreement allowing for the resupply of the troops stationed on a rusty warship deliberately grounded on Ayungin Shoal in 1999 to assert Manila’s claims to the area.
ASEAN countries “more or less have a feel of how to deal with him… They know what his trigger points are, what he likes, what he dislikes,” he said.ASEAN, of which Myanmar is a member, has led diplomatic efforts to resolve the crisis but has made little progress.
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