The East Sea is the focus of the Asian Security Conference.

From June 1 to 3, the 11th Asia Security Summit will take place in Shangri-La, Singapore with the participation of representatives from 28 Asia-Pacific countries along with the UK, France, Russia and the US. This is an intergovernmental security forum with the participation of top defense officials in the region and the world. The sovereignty dispute in the East Sea will be the most notable topic at this conference.

The conference is organized by the UK-based International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) and is popularly known as the Shangri-La Dialogue, as it takes place annually at the hotel of the same name inSingapore.

This year’s Asia Security Summit focuses on the following topics: military modernization programs, global power balance, regional security architecture, countering transnational threats, and coping with natural disasters. According to Tim Huxley, Executive Director of IISS Asia, maritime disputes in the East Sea are a major topic at this year’s conference. Some countries involved in the East Sea disputes may take advantage of the Shangri-La Dialogue to express their views.

According to the schedule, on the afternoon of June 2, delegates attending the Shangri-La Dialogue will have a special plenary session, in which the first topic to be discussed is "Restraining disputes in the East Sea". This shows that the East Sea continues to be a topic attracting attention in the region and the world.

This year's Shangri-La Dialogue takes place in the context of China andPhilippinesThere is a diplomatic tension over the sovereignty dispute over the Scarborough Shoal/Hoang Nham. The two countries have continuously sent ships to operate around this uninhabited shoal, but so far there has been no sign of concession.

Additionally, in mid-May, China continued to unilaterally impose a fishing ban in the East Sea. VietnamMaleand alsoPhilippinesAll of them protested this order. Manila even considered issuing its own fishing ban. Not only that, China also arrested two fishing boats and 14 Vietnamese fishermen who were fishing in the area of ​​Vietnam's Hoang Sa archipelago. These fishermen and a fishing boat were later released, but China kept a fishing boat and all of the fishing gear and seafood of the Vietnamese fishermen.Male.

In response to China’s actions, the Spokesperson of the Vietnamese Ministry of Foreign Affairs stated: “China’s obstruction and arrest of Vietnamese fishermen and fishing vessels engaged in legal and normal fishing activities in the waters of Vietnam’s Hoang Sa archipelago is a serious violation of Vietnam’s sovereignty, sovereign rights and jurisdiction.” Mr. Nghi added that Vietnam resolutely protests and demands that China promptly return the fishing vessels of Vietnamese fishermen and all assets that China has seized and stop similar actions.

And right before the Shangri-La Dialogue, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton also said that China's claims of sovereignty in the East Sea exceeded the permission of the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS 1982).

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