ASEAN, China adopt framework for crafting code on South China Sea

MANILA (Reuters) - Foreign ministers of Southeast Asia and China adopted on Sunday a negotiating framework for a code of conduct in the South China Sea, a move they hailed as progress but seen by critics as tactic to buy China time to consolidate its maritime power.

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