South China Sea : promise and problems of COC

• Main Authors: Vu, Truong-Minh, Nguyen, The Phuong
• Other Authors: S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies
• Format: Commentary
• Language: English
• Published: 2014
• Subjects: DRNTU::Social sciences::Political science
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/102981; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/24328
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Since the escalation of tension in the South China Sea in early 2014, establishing a code of conduct(COC) has become more pressing. Foreign ministers from China and ASEAN who met in Naypyitaw last weekend agreed to speed up hammering out a legally-binding COC. Can there be an early conclusion of the...