Southeast Asian nations stepped up efforts on Thursday to engage China in talks to resolve maritime tensions, agreeing to meet to try to reach common ground on disputed areas of the South China Sea ahead of planned discussions in Beijing later this year.
Efforts by ASEAN to craft a code of conduct to manage South China Sea tensions all but collapsed last year at a summit chaired by Cambodia, a close economic ally of China, when the group failed to issue a closing statement for the first time.
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Manuel Mogato and Stuart Grudgings, Reuters via CHINA US Focus http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ChinaUsFocus/~3/TmhZYPZ6JJc/
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