released : 8 Jul 2023 at 08: 28 A Chinese Coast Guard ship apparently blocks the Philippine Coast Guard vessel Malabrigo as it offered assistance throughout a Philippine Navy operation near Second Thomas Shoal in the contested South China Sea, June 30, 2023, in this handout image launched on July 5,2023 (Photo: Reuters) WASHINGTON: Washington hopes to rally Southeast Asian countries to take harder action versus Myanmar’s military junta and to push back on China’s actions in the South China Sea as top United States diplomat Antony Blinken heads to the area for conferences next week, a State Department authorities stated on Friday. Secretary of State Blinken will travel to Indonesia to takepart in a conference of foreign ministers from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) local bloc after he signsupwith President Joe Biden in the United Kingdom and in Lithuania for North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) conferences from Sunday to Wednesday. Daniel Kritenbrink, the leading State Department authorities for East Asia, informed pressreporters that Myanmar, which was plunged into mayhem by a 2021 military coup,
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