The foreign ministers of Asean and China recently agreed on a single text to negotiate a code of conduct (COC) in the South China Sea, a move that has been hailed as an important step forward in efforts to calm regional tensions.
A COC is supposed to guide the behaviour of countries in the disputed areas of the South China Sea but efforts to agree on one has been long and tortuous.
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