What means "asking to much of China is not reasonnable" ? Vietnam wants the Paracels to be included, Philippines wants Scarborough Shoal to be included, China wants neither to be included and would like the COC to focus on the Spratleys. On top of that, all ASEAN claimants want the COC to be legally binding and to include the artificial islands, which again China does not want to talk about. These negociations roots go as far as 1992 I believe and didn't just start in 2002. What is for sure is that it has moved at very low speed from the start and it seems it is not going to get any faster in the coming years.
What means "asking to much of China is not reasonnable" ? Vietnam wants the Paracels to be included, Philippines wants Scarborough Shoal to be included, China wants neither to be included and would like the COC to focus on the Spratleys. On top of that, all ASEAN claimants want the COC to be legally binding and to include the artificial islands, which again China does not want to talk about. These negociations roots go as far as 1992 I believe and didn't just start in 2002. What is for sure is that it has moved at very low speed from the start and it seems it is not going to get any faster in the coming years.