Last weekend’s Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Summit, held in Bangkok, demonstrated a positive spirit among ASEAN members, but failed to yield substantial progress over a Code of ...

JAKARTA, Feb 4 (Reuters) - Indonesia plans to intensify talks with China and other Southeast Asian countries to finalise a code of conduct (COC) for the disputed South China Sea, its foreign minister ...

It is well established that the South China Sea is not merely a geographic space. It is a strategic theater where law, power and cooperation inevitably intersect. This piece focuses on two ...

MANILA, Philippines — Only a Code of Conduct (COC) in the South China Sea anchored on the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) will be acceptable to the Association of Southeast ...

COC negotiations have already been delayed a year due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Indonesia had proposed hosting negotiations in person this July, but due to the worsening second wave of COVID-19 in ...

At the recently concluded 31st ASEAN Summit Meetings in Manila, the leaders of ASEAN and China formally announced the start of negotiations on the fine print of the Code of Conduct (COC) in the South ...