Top diplomats from Southeast Asia have met with China’s Foreign Minister for talks that come as friction continues to escalate in the region as Beijing grows more assertive in pressing sweeping maritime claims.
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi , 6th from left, poses for group photos with ASEAN ministers and delegates during the ASEAN Post Ministerial Conference with China at the Association of Southeast Asian Nations Foreign Ministers' Meeting in Vientiane, Laos, Friday, July, 26, 2024.
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken was to arrive Saturday to attend the ASEAN meetings and was expected to meet with Wang on the sidelines for bilateral talks. Following the talks, Marsudi said the group stressed that the ten-member regional bloc should not be a proxy for any power, otherwise “it will be difficult for ASEAN to become an anchor for regional stability and peace.”
There are divisions within ASEAN on how to deal with China's maritime claims and the Philippines has been critical over a perceived lack of support from the bloc. Thailand, which shares a long border with Myanmar, has already been involved in providing humanitarian assistance.in March from the northern province of Tak. It was said to be distributed in Kayin state to approximately 20,000 out of millions of people displaced by fighting.
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