Considering China's policy towards Southeast Asia

ClintonASEANScenery Secretary Clinton at a press conference, National Convention Center, Hanoi, Vietnam.
For some time now, U.S. policymakers have said they hoped that China would become a "responsible stakeholder" in regional and global peace and prosperity. In an Asia Times op-ed, Donald K. Emmerson discusses China's claim to sovereignty over most of the South China Sea in the light of two recent meetings: a gathering of foreign ministers in the ASEAN Regional Forum in Hanoi in July 2010 and a U.S.-ASEAN Summit in New York in September 2010.