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The Significance of the US-ASEAN Sunnylands Summit

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The Significance of the US-ASEAN Sunnylands Summit

The Diplomat‘s Ankit Panda and Prashanth Parameswaran discuss the recent U.S.-ASEAN Summit.

The Significance of the US-ASEAN Sunnylands Summit
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The Diplomat‘s Ankit Panda and Prashanth Parameswaran discuss the significance and outcomes of the historic United States-Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) summit in Sunnylands, California, and the ramifications of China placing HQ-9 surface-to-air missile systems on Woody Island in the Paracel Islands in the South China Sea.

For more podcasts on the South China Sea, listen to recent episodes on the January 2016 and the October 2015 freedom of navigation patrols by the United States Navy in the South China Sea. You can also listen to an earlier podcast between Panda, Parameswaran and The Diplomat‘s Shannon Tiezzi on the pending case at the Permanent Court of Arbitration here.

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