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China Meets With Asean Diplomats To Propose South China Sea Talks (SCMP)

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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 often uses when discussing the US role in Asia.

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