Filipino fishermen aboard their boats sail past a Chinese vessel near the Scarborough Shoal in the disputed South China Sea, on February 6. Rising regional and global tensions threaten to thwart Indonesia’s efforts to revive negotiations over a code of conduct in the South China Sea. Photo: AFP
Filipino fishermen aboard their boats sail past a Chinese vessel near the Scarborough Shoal in the disputed South China Sea, on February 6. Rising regional and global tensions threaten to thwart Indonesia’s efforts to revive negotiations over a code of conduct in the South China Sea. Photo: AFP
Simon Hutagalung
Opinion

Opinion

Simon Hutagalung

China must not derail revived South China Sea code of conduct talks

  • Asean ministers have agreed to revive talks on the code of conduct, but they are applying international law rather than China’s preferred rules
  • China must understand that coercion and negotiations cannot take place simultaneously if it wants to bring the code of conduct into being

Simon Hutagalung
Simon Hutagalung

Updated: 8:15am, 7 Mar, 2023

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Filipino fishermen aboard their boats sail past a Chinese vessel near the Scarborough Shoal in the disputed South China Sea, on February 6. Rising regional and global tensions threaten to thwart Indonesia’s efforts to revive negotiations over a code of conduct in the South China Sea. Photo: AFP
Filipino fishermen aboard their boats sail past a Chinese vessel near the Scarborough Shoal in the disputed South China Sea, on February 6. Rising regional and global tensions threaten to thwart Indonesia’s efforts to revive negotiations over a code of conduct in the South China Sea. Photo: AFP
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