January 25, 2022 — Elina Noor, Asia Society Policy Institute (ASPI)’s director of political-security affairs, talks about the long-running South China Sea dispute with Sumathy Permal, fellow and head of the Centre for the Straits of Malacca, Maritime Institute of Malaysia; Nguyen Hung Son, vice president of the Diplomatic Academy of Vietnam (DAV) and director-general of the East Sea (South China Sea) Institute; and Evan Laksmana, senior research fellow at the Centre on Asia and Globalisation, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore. They shared their views on the ongoing negotiations with China on a “code of conduct” and the roles that ASEAN, the frontline countries, and external parties play in the management of the dispute. (1 hr., 1 min.)