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Rodion Ebbighausen, DW: Southeast Asian nations 'want to control China's behavior'
Negotiations over a code of conduct between China and other nations on the South China Sea planned for March 2018 have not taken place. DW asked Asia expert Bill Hayton if there is a risk to regional stability.
At the 31st ASEAN summit in Manila last year, China and ASEAN countries agreed to begin negotiating a "code of conduct" for the South China Sea (SCS) in March 2018. Frequent tensions over natural resources, trade routes and island territories pose a threat to regional stability. Observers were cautiously optimistic that a new round of negotiations would take place, but this latest opportunity has passed without action from the conflicting parties.
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WNU Editor: Here is an easy prediction .... they may try as much as they want, but this gathering of Southeast Asian countries are not going to succeed in telling China on how they should behave.
