{"id":109363,"date":"2017-08-02T01:28:25","date_gmt":"2017-08-02T05:28:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=109363"},"modified":"2017-08-02T01:28:25","modified_gmt":"2017-08-02T05:28:25","slug":"asean-wants-talks-on-nonaggression-pact-with-china-soonest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/08\/02\/asean-wants-talks-on-nonaggression-pact-with-china-soonest\/","title":{"rendered":"ASEAN wants talks on nonaggression pact with China soonest"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_103917\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-103917\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/196841_10150164115178854_7652555_n-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-103917\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/196841_10150164115178854_7652555_n-3-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"(Photo: ASEAN\/ Facebook)\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/196841_10150164115178854_7652555_n-3-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/196841_10150164115178854_7652555_n-3-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/196841_10150164115178854_7652555_n-3.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-103917\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File:Seal_of_ASEAN.svg\">Emblem of Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Photo by Wikimedia Commons User Sodacan)<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA, Philippines \u2013 Southeast Asia&#8217;s top diplomats say will seek talks \u201cas soon as possible\u201d on a proposed nonaggression pact with China aimed at preventing clashes in the disputed South China Sea.<\/p>\n<p>An initial draft of a joint communique to be issued by the foreign ministers of the 10-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations, which was seen The Associated Press on Wednesday, says the ministers will ask senior diplomats to initiate talks on the so-called code of conduct in the disputed waters after their governments agreed on a framework of the accord with China.<\/p>\n<p>The long-seething territorial disputes, alarm over North Korea&#8217;s missile tests and the rise of Islamic radicalism are expected to grab the spotlight in the annual gathering in Manila starting Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>China claims the strategic waterways virtually in totality.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA, Philippines \u2013 Southeast Asia&#8217;s top diplomats say will seek talks \u201cas soon as possible\u201d on a proposed nonaggression pact &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":102881,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,95,17],"tags":[595],"class_list":["post-109363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-ph","category-news-w","tag-asean","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109363","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109363\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}