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Vietnam PM warns of economic calamity brought by coronavirus, SE Asia News & Top Stories

Jaleel M. by Jaleel M.
June 26, 2020
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HANOI • Vietnam warned yesterday that the coronavirus pandemic had swept away years of economic gains as he and other South-east Asian leaders met online for a summit that was also dominated by anxiety over Beijing’s moves in the disputed South China Sea.

The current chair of the Association of South-east Asian Nations (Asean) also wants to use the summit to inject momentum into talks on a sprawling China-backed trade pact, the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP).

The deal which aimed to loop in half the world’s population and a third of its gross domestic product has been hampered by India’s refusal to join in. New Delhi has concerns over access to its market for cheap goods from China, the regional superpower with which it is now locked in a deadly border row.

The immediate focus for the 10-member bloc is the crippling cost of the coronavirus, which has ravaged the economies of tourism and export-reliant countries such as Thailand and Vietnam.

A special Asean meeting in April to tackle the pandemic failed to agree on an emergency fund.

Vietnam’s Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc gave a sobering opening address yesterday that emphasised the “serious consequences” of the pandemic for economic development among Asean’s member states.

“It has swept away the successes of recent years… threatening the lives of millions of people,” he said.

There is also increasing angst that the virus – and its fallout – has provided cover for China to make new plays in the South China Sea, the resource-rich waterway that Beijing claims most of but is also contested by Vietnam, the Philippines, Malaysia and Taiwan.

Beijing is always advancing its pieces on the “South China Sea chessboard”, a senior South-east Asian diplomat told Agence France-Presse.

“So it’s not out of the blue that they’re doing it during this crisis.”

Beijing took advantage of the Asian financial crisis in the late 1990s and also the Sars outbreak to push its claims, he added.

“If there is a space, they move.”

Without directly mentioning China, Mr Phuc admitted that “strategic problems between big countries had become clear and had deepened”.

“While the world is trying its best to fight the pandemic, there were irresponsible acts, violating international laws, that affected the security and stability of some regions including ours,” he said.

In April, Vietnam accused China of sinking a trawler, prompting the United States to warn that Beijing was “exploiting the distraction” of other states “to expand its unlawful claims”.

Vietnam expert Carl Thayer, an academic at the University of New South Wales, believes the past few months have been “business as usual” for China, but noted that negotiations on a so-called Code of Conduct for the South China Sea had stalled because of the virus.

“It needs to be restarted,” he said.

AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE





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