BANGKOK -- Chinese Premier Li Keqiang on Sunday urged Southeast Asian leaders to wrap up a "code of conduct" for the South China Sea by 2021, after recent flare-ups in the disputed waterway complicated talks on the maritime nonaggression pact.
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Chinese Premier Li Keqiang, center, prepares for a photo shoot at the ASEAN-China Summit in Bangkok on Nov. 3. © Reuters
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