VIENTIANE: Staunch China ally Cambodia is preventing Southeast Asia from reaching a consensus on the West Philippine Sea [South China Sea] after an international tribunal rejected Beijing’s territorial claims to the waters, a diplomat said on Saturday.

The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) is meeting in Laos for the first time since the UN-backed tribunal ruled earlier this month that China did not have historic rights to vast swathes of the strategic sea.

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