IN the heightening tension in the South China Sea, the real question must be addressed: Does the United States have the right to interfere in the affairs of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean)?
Over the past several years, Asean nations and China have been earnestly engaged in crafting a code of conduct in the South China Sea that would bring about a peaceable settlement of all the disputes over the waters in the region.
China had made its position clear — and it was accepted by the Asean nations — that such settlement would be to the complete exclusion of any outsider. Upon the initiative of President Xi Jinping, the COCSCS was on the way to a nice conclusion when the problem arose. The US insisted on its own idea of 'freedom of navigation operations' by which it arrogated to itself and its allies the authority to sail in the waters of the Asean region and the South China Sea, which China claims to own.
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