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management of you're welcome to the the news aisha. i'm glad you could join us meetings underway in manila to discuss a set of rules in the preventing flashes and managing tensions of a disputed south china sea officials from china, which claims most of the south china sea are meeting diplomats from the philippines, valencia, and vietnam these are among the nations that challenge chinese claimed in the region. and in the past, those competing claims have left to confrontations between chinese trips and ships of other countries. a legally binding code of conduct in the south china sea between china and the 10 member association of southeast asia, nations or also young has been seen as a way of preventing these clashes. but 21 years of discussions have you did very beautiful and she has why in the back to full control in the south china

sea disabilities capturing more tens, confrontations between the philippines and china. just a few weeks ago these incidents leading to another diplomatic dispute. these are just one of many taking place with beijing over these hopefully disputed waters. the south china sea is a resource rich globally significant shipping area. most of which beijing considered as a part of china, as indicated by what it calls the 9 dash line. but several neighboring countries have competing claims that with different parts of the sea and the various islands in between, and they're willing to fight for them. it's basing is actions that have raised tensions, innovation to boiling points in recent years, accused of building legal structures. these ones documented by the philippine military or the yeah. so i, i,

they've also been many incidents of intimidation at sea involving various nations, the india pins into the local, intelligible, well, there's even been an attempt to plants, a chinese flag deep beneath the waves. no. the closest to any country has got to dancing, showing is suffering. t claims. is the philippines celebrating victory to territorial dispute case? and the permanent cool it's of, of attraction in 2016 in memphis states are still hoping to tie down china to a binding code of conduct. it's a health settled amount of time disputes, but disappoint decades of trying. one is still yet to materialize. there's also a big geo political game at play. here with the united states at the forefront,

it's made moves to boast that ties with key regional allies will also increasing its maritime and military presence in and around. the south china sea lifted more context on this. now joining me for more is gwen car. yeah. and he's a visiting fellow at the i s s. and he was soft shocked. institute in a single mister glen austin and china. i have been discussing a code of conduct in the south china sea for at least 21 years. why don't we have a legally binding cord as yet or? well i think it's very important to know the motivation at interest, different policies in this i think for, you know, a car, one got a boss inventories. i really want to have a binding correspondence in south tennessee, 3 bins, country you know, to escalate onto. you spend basically power to transfers out the country,

but for countries like china, you know, as the single most powerful state in the reason there is no point for them to, you know, create this by the core content. so the content of actually follow the effort to do uh, because the ration on v o. c o which was signed, housing. and so, but this one was a, you know, not biding. so all the countries of the states. yeah. really wanted to view a legally binding document which is called content. and they have been trying to these can squeeze to themselves and was china to do just come from the all the time, but to no avail. because obviously, you know, when you have a very powerful country switch, that's the one to follow the rules and doesn't really want to start using the power to use what to use, right. talk to a 3 and 3 or 4 years ago when the prep family of the troll job. when he

came to ask me things, i said that the cold come that you're going to, they should be finish reading. so yes, pushing out of love. and so that actually the ocean still going nowhere to now because now a bleeding to say the discussions on a single thanks of the call on that. so i think it's very hard for us to see very soon at the finish of these and obviously the peaceful environment insolvency it's, it's interesting to say that because my question to you is going to be how serious you think china is this time round. it actually wanting a code of conduct, given that they have agreed only in july at last month to accelerate this process and to have a code of conduct within 3 years. so what you're saying is that it's not going to happen in china is not see this, is that correct? yeah, so it's very interesting to see that china only is wrapped up in narrows everything

just be able to come up with all this. always athearn states, opposite 1016. so after the event called duration bronzer a, we 2 people when they say china to the international court. so opposite i think version believe that it's probably better for them to actually kind of the legs. the process of, you know, legal process about the country by appearing to agree on their conduct, but actually use a power to me to write this out there and see be the public. so islands are interested in their own exclusive. i kind of exhaust so many people in the south. ah, so it's a yeah, really live that i see is ation by going to negotiate actually, and you know, be like all through the bands of the countries from actually joining together in an effort to count the china efforts on this out, tennessee. but at the same time,

they tried to do it on the ground by you know, really building me pilot august alternate. so when they realized that generally i actually control this out tennessee by far. that's no way for them to know because like there's no way for them to prevent that from happening. all right, so what you're saying is basically the southeast asian nations have been presented a fait accompli given back in the past, decades. for instance, china has fully meet today is at least 3 audio visual islands is apparently building an s trip on another one nearby at ma'am right now and continues to have some issues with philippine ships. you're saying that are saying that essentially out of options. correct? yeah, sure, but i think awesome family's lives specialist and when i get home and thinking that actually knows the motivation of the china decision to rejoice, it goes action. but also, you know, as a whole doesn't really have lot of options. so firstly, they managed to at least have, you know, kind of like diagnosed with china,

all those and i don't mind going to go way is probably better than ever, you know? no, no, no. and secondly, so if you have these kind of, you go someplace with the house. yeah. they can create a car like you can find grouping of companies with the same interest blinds of the beats and get my young. busy together, you know, those are the bands of the china and so easy to get mom and they bring to show that they actually try to solve the situation by preschool. bill, you know, is not like trying to bring it right. the way like china has been doing, but they tried to actually use those by on it using the national, you know, the get it solved. the problem was track. so he's got like, it was ignoble for smaller countries, lines like vietnam and the big 2 i pretty sure will even though china, the other half is kyle, who bill to watch the we'll have to leave it there for the time being with thank

you so much for joining us today, mr. grant cutting from the i as as use of shock institute in single. thank you so much, sir. my pleasure. the records show the july this year i was the hottest month ever recorded. many potts of asia suffered under the extreme heat known to have become most severe and more frequent due to climate change. in japan alone, the thousands of people were taken to hospitals to be treated for heat stroke. seeing the problem, some firms like i think, innovative to help people beat the heat. it's not your usual balloon dress. it's got a fan, literally blowing in into you at this trade fade and tokyo floats, but keep people cool to unbearable. summer heat, everywhere. breezy jackets like this one,

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