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Bandar Seri Begawan (AsiaNews / Agencies) – Security and economic and trade ties will be the focus of the discussion of the next ASEAN summit, the 22nd in the history of the association that brings together 10 countries of Southeast Asia (Myanmar, Indonesia, Cambodia, Brunei, Philippines, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Singapore and Malaysia). The summit will open tomorrow in the Sultanate of Brunei and will provide a common line on territorial disputes in the South China Sea, which scuppered the previous meeting in Phnom Penh. The pressure from Beijing on the host nation Cambodia in fact prevented the definition of a binding policy for the regulation of tensions in the area….