ML-Implode News - U.S. diplomatic strategy on South China Sea appears to founder

Yet after the international court rejected Beijing's position, the U.S. calls for a united front appear to have made little headway, with only six countries joining Washington in insisting that the decision should be binding.
They include the Philippines, but not several other countries with their own claims to parts of the South China Sea that might benefit if Beijing observed the decision.

China also scored a major diplomatic victory earlier this week, when the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) dropped any reference to the ruling from a joint statement at the end of a meeting of the 10-country group's foreign minister in Laos. This followed objections from Cambodia, Beijing's closest ASEAN ally.
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"... the international community has voted by not saying anything. The consensus seems to be 'We don't care. We don't want to hold China to these standards.'" [said Greg Poling, a South China Sea expert at Washington's Center for Strategic and International Studies think-tank.]

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U.S. diplomatic strategy on South China Sea appears to founder