For 20 years, Asean and China have been working on a Code of Conduct (COC) for the South China Sea.
So far, the task looks to be a Sisyphean one - with rounds and rounds of negotiations across cities, messages of support in countless communiques and joint statements over the years, but little to show for it.
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