comes in this, someone is screwing these words locals on wearing that best small. this is rose now. and now is the time for you to book your trip to wrote. wrote what you love the videos a shot coming up today. avoiding conflict in the south china sea, that's the game as china and meet south east asia nations to discuss the rules of conduct in the dispute and walked away. the goal to avoid flashes like these, but how sincere it is china in its efforts and how close are we to guessing are legally binding code? the

management of you're welcome to deed up didn't use a shot. glad you could join us meetings underway in manila to discuss a set of rules aimed at preventing flashes and managing tensions of the dispute in the 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 claims in the region. 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 asian 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 see as why in the back of the full control in the south china sea disabilities capturing more tens, confrontations between the philippines in china. just

a few weeks ago these incidents leading to another diplomatic dispute. these are just one of many taking place with staging over these hopefully disputed waters. the south china sea is a resource rich globally significant shipping area, most of which beijing can sit as a part of china, as indicated by what it calls the 9 dash line. but several neighboring countries have competing claims that 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 a legal structures. these ones documented by the philippine military on the friday, the i,

there's also been many incidents of intimidation at sea involving various nations, the india into, into the local and don't do this even been an attempt to plant a chinese flag deep beneath the waves. no. the closest to any country has got to dancing china is supplementing claims is to the philippines, celebrating victory to territorial dispute case, and the permanent cool develop attraction in 2016 nazi and memphis states are still hoping to tie down china to a binding code of conduct it's a help settle amount of time disputes, but despite decades of trying, one is still yet to materialize. there's also a big a geopolitical game at play here with the united states at the full front. 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. let's get more context on this. now. joining me for more is gwen car. yeah, and he's a visiting fellow at the i s s use of instruct institute in the single mr. glenn 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 court as yet or well, i think it's very important to know the motivation at interest on different policies. in this i think for, you know, a car on got a boss inventories. i really want to have a binding correspondence in south tennessee to prevent country, you know, to escalate all to use them. they do the power to transfer now 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 reduced by the content. so the content of actually follow the effort to be with the collaboration on the c o, which was fine. 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 over 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 are you going to talk to? a 3 and 3 or 4 years ago when the prep from yeah, the true job ready came to ask me things. i said that the code conduct you're going to they should be finish reading. so yes,

pushing out of love it in to my dad actually the ocean still going nowhere to now because now i'm reading 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. thousands 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 of 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 interesting to see that china only wrapped up in narrows anything just you'll

see, you'll probably come up with all this. always athearn states, opposite 1016. so after the appointment called duration bronze, it's a weight to pieces when they say china. so the international court, so opposite i think version believe that it's probably better for them to actually cause the legs a. busy sense of, you know, legal process about the country by appearing to agree on the court, but actually use a power to me to write this out and, and see the islands and try putting their own exclusive items on so many people in the south. so it's a, yeah, really live that i see ization by going to negotiate actually, and i, you know, be like, you know, and to the bands of the countries from actually joining together in an effort to count the china after all this, out, tennessee. but at the same time, they tried to retreat on the ground by, you know,

really building me pilot on this afternoon. so when they realized that generally i actually control the south tennessee by far. that's no way for them to know if it sounds like there's no way for them to prevent that from happening. right. so what you're saying is basically the southeast asian nations have been presented a fait accompli given that in the past decade for instance, china has fully meet today is at least 3 audio visual islands is apparently building an s trip on another one near vietnam. right now and continues to ask, i'm issues with philippine ships. you're saying that are saying that essentially out of options. correct? yeah, sure. so 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 please have, you know, kind of like diagnosed with china. all those kind of miles away 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 interests 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 guys solve the problem. so we've got like a good signal for smaller countries like like vietnam and some things too. i pretty sure we'll even though china it as it happens, kyle, i will be able to watch that. we'll have to leave it there for the time being by

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