VIENTIANE -- Leaders of the 10 Southeast Asian nations are taking home many concerns with tensions in the South China Sea taking center stage, even though talk of deeper economic cooperation made some headway during a weeklong summit in the Laotian capital that closed on Friday.
On the last day of the ASEAN Leaders' Summit, Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. used the international stage it afforded to condemn China's maritime aggression. Marcos told world leaders attending the East Asia Summit that Beijing continues to stoke grave tensions in the South China Sea.
