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Simon Hutagalung
Simon Hutagalung
Simon Hutagalung is a senior diplomat in Indonesia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Presently, he is the coordinator for terrorism at the Centre for Asia, Africa and Middle East Region.

Asean ministers have agreed to revive talks on the code of conduct, but they are applying international law rather than China’s preferred rules. Beijing must understand that coercion and negotiations cannot take place simultaneously if it wants to bring the code of conduct into being.

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