💨 Abstract

At the East Asia Summit, Russia and China blocked a proposed consensus statement drafted by Southeast Asian nations over objections to language on the South China Sea. The key contention was over the reference to the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea, with China claiming nearly all of the South China Sea. The U.S., Japan, Australia, South Korea, and India supported the statement, but Russia and China objected.

Courtesy: theprint.in

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