China meets with Asean diplomats to propose resuming South China Sea talks

Three weeks after US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced his country’s new position on the South China Sea, Beijing summoned diplomats from 10 Southeast Asian countries for a meeting to convey its worries about the rising risk for conflict over the contested waters.During the meeting in Beijing in early August, a Chinese official in charge of maritime and boundary affairs expressed Beijing’s concerns for the “high risk” from military activities by “non-regional countries”, phrasing China…

from South China Morning Post https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3098486/china-meets-asean-diplomats-propose-resuming-south-china-sea