US meetings with ASEAN will include China concerns, but no call to pick sides
Owen Churchill, South China Morning Post
Posted at Aug 03 09:29 PM
The United States will raise concerns about China’s human rights record and “coercion” in the South China Sea during ministerial meetings with Southeast Asian countries this week, yet will not force countries in the region to pick sides in the ongoing US-China spat, a senior US official said on Monday.
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