WHEN the summit of leaders of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) took place in Bangkok last June, the meetings, perhaps not surprisingly, said almost nothing about the dispute between Asean nations and China in the South China Sea.

The hope that Asean could move forward the long-discussed Code of Conduct (CoC) in the South China Sea was dashed. The COC hardly moved an inch.

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