Moratorium to douse China’s rash moves in disputed waters

A moratorium on China’s increasingly provocative moves in the South China Sea could help weaken the Asian economic giant’s aggressively high-profile presence in disputed waters there.

It would only happen, however, if Beijing expressed willingness to hold talks especially with the Philippines and other Southeast Asian Nations with conflicting claims to resource-rich areas in the contested sea, Philippine Foreign Affairs Secretary Albert del Rosario said on Monday.