Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen, the current chair of ASEAN, speaks during the opening ceremony of the 40th and 41st ASEAN Summits in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, on Nov. 10, 2022. (AP Photo/Heng Sinith, Pool).
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia — Southeast Asian nations on Friday urged restraint and dialogue over the disputed South China Sea as China pushed for progress on a code of conduct to govern behavior in the strategic waterway, highlighting tensions that have simmered for years..
As leaders from the 10-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and their dialogue partners gathered in Cambodia for a series of summits, China’s foreign minister, Wang Yi, told his counterparts that .
