Philippines Urges Strong ASEAN Statement Against China

The Philippines' foreign minister on Sunday told his counterparts from the 10-member Association of Southeast Nations (ASEAN) that China is “poised to take de facto control” of the South China Sea through its reclamation work on disputed reefs there. Philippine Foreign Affairs Secretary Albert del Rosario told the ASEAN Foreign Ministers’ Meeting that the group should tell China what it is doing is wrong “and that the massive reclamations should be immediately stopped.” The...

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