China 'pleased' to work with ASEAN on 'sea of peace'
China is “pleased” to work with ASEAN to implement the Declaration on the Conduct of Parties in the South China Sea (DOC) and speed up negotiations on the Code of Conduct (COC), to jointly make the contentious Asian waters a “sea of peace”, according to Chang Jian, councillor at the Chinese embassy in Phnom Penh.