VOA标准英语2012--Indonesia Working to Soothe South China Sea Tensions
时间：2019-01-13 作者：英语课 分类：VOA标准英语2012年(八月)
Indonesia Working to Soothe 1 South China Sea Tensions
Chinese patrols in waters that Vietnam and the Philippines also claim have heightened tensions in the mineral-rich South China Sea.
Vietnamese protestors condemn 2 what they call a Chinese invasion over Beijing's decision to take bids for oil blocks off Vietnam's coast. Hanoi has passed a law claiming sovereignty over disputed islands.
The division is so deep it blocked a unified 3 statement from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations for the first time in the group's history.
"The relationships between China and ASEAN countries are multidimensional. They should not be spoiled by the South China Sea issue," said ASEAN spokesman Danny Lee.
Into these troubled waters comes Indonesian Foreign Minister Marty Natalegawa, working to keep ASEAN from splitting.
"ASEAN continues to remain to be united, to be cohesive 4 on all issues of common concern, not least, and especially on the issue of South China Sea," Natalegawa said.
From Phnom Penh to Manila to Bangkok to Hanoi, Natalegwa is pushing a regional framework to resolve the rival maritime 5 claims.
"We do actually need a Code of Conduct for the South China Sea, some kind of rule of the road type of regime so that potential for conflicts in the region can be managed and, even more, betters the potential for conflict can (to) be resolved," Natalegawa said.
As Southeast Asia's biggest country, Indonesia's neutrality is helping 6 cool some tempers.
"They really are sort of at the fulcrum 7 of this, trying to remain in the center, wherever the center may be. I imagine that will continue going forward. Their status has really risen as a result of their diplomacy," said Justin Logan, who directs foreign policy studies at the U.S. Cato Institute.
Logan says Indonesian mediation 8 is especially important as China opens a military garrison 9 on an island Vietnam and Taiwan claim.
"And I do think that they (Indonesians) have remained sort of the anchor in the center as other countries have more or less drifted away from that center," Logan said.
Senior U.S. officials say Indonesia has been instrumental not only in keeping open prospects 10 for talks over the South China Sea but also in encouraging Burma's military to enact 11 political and economic reforms that helped to bring opposition 12 leader Aung San Suu Kyi to parliament.
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