Only exports most affected by the China-ASEAN pact are to be freed on signature in June, and agreements on intellectual-property rights and investment-protection are to be negotiated.
In China Daily, Prof Gong Jianhua, a maritime affairs specialist at Guangdong Ocean University, welcomes the new coast guard, but says China should promote joint development with neighbours in the South China Sea on the basis of a China-Asean free trade zone to ease "anxiety and suspicion".
East Asian nations -- China, Korea and ASEAN -- have emerged as major consumers.
Why do you think -- and you all deal in ASEAN countries, as well as China -- why do you think that has happened, specifically with the ASEAN nations?
The same day it was announced that Zhu would make an ASEAN tour starting Nov. 22 and represent China at the ASEAN-East Asian informal summit in Manila.
We took note of the ASEAN-China Joint Statement on the 10th Anniversary of the DOC in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, on 19 November 2012.
WHITEHOUSE: Joint Statement of the 4th ASEAN-U.S. Leaders' Meeting
We recognized the importance of the 2002 ASEAN-China Declaration on the Conduct (DOC) of Parties in the South China Sea and welcomed its implementation.
WHITEHOUSE: Joint Statement of the 4th ASEAN-U.S. Leaders' Meeting
Asean is China's third-largest trading partner, according to China's Ministry of Commerce.
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Since then the influence in Myanmar of both India and, especially, China has grown, while ASEAN's decision-making and diplomacy have been handicapped by the membership of a government abhorrent to the West.
Within the organisation, however, the fear is that its cherished autonomy and ability to compromise the so-called ASEAN way is under threat from big-power rivalries, however reluctant China and America may be to risk naval escalation.
Members of the Association of South-East Asian Nations (ASEAN), alarmed by China's vague, unexplained but sweeping claim to sovereignty over most of the South China Sea, encouraged America to involve itself in the issue.
Every year, we have the ASEAN Summit plus the three East Asian giants -- China, Japan and Korea.
But ASEAN has helped South-East Asia, sandwiched between India and China, punch above its weight.
The ten members of the Association of South-East Asian Nations (ASEAN) have held meetings with Japan, China and South Korea for seven years in a row.
General Surayud Chulanont, the prime minister in Thailand's military-backed government, suggested the creation of a regional forum to solve Myanmar's crisis, comprising ASEAN, India, China and the UN, modelled on the six-party talks on North Korea.
Each CMIM country has access to the amount it has committed times a multiple (five for poor countries, 2.5 for the better-off ASEAN members, one for South Korea and 0.5 for China and Japan).
Their task therefore is to convince India, China and Myanmar's fellow members of the Association of South-East Asian Nations (ASEAN) that they cannot simply go back to business as usual with Myanmar once the fuss over its slaughter has died down.
And, refusing to countenance serious negotiations with the Association of South-East Asian Nations (ASEAN), to which four of the claimants belong, China appears to want to pick off its members one by one.
Meanwhile, Asean is seeking China's agreement on a code of conduct on disputes in the potentially oil-rich South China Sea.
China also faced an unsettling experience in July, at the annual ASEAN Regional Forum organised by the Association of South-East Asian Nations.
But now it is a new world, and the Chinese societies in ASEAN are no longer the persecuted rich minorities but are the lynch-pins of the network with China.
ASEAN's GDP is less than a third the size of China, but the region is resource-rich, has a lot of untapped growth potential and represents a good hedge against political risk in China.
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