ASEAN leaders denounce Myanmar violence, discuss U.S.-China rivalries

Leaders of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations denounced a weekend attack in Myanmar in a statement, with the country's prolonged political crisis among the issues confronting ASEAN at the group's summit that began Wednesday in Indonesia.The statement was issued as diplomatic sources revealed a secret meeting between Indonesian Foreign Minister Retno Marsudi and Myanmar's military-appointed foreign minister Than Swe on the resort island of Bali last month.There was no detail about the secret meeting, but Marsudi briefed other ASEAN foreign ministers on Monday that the "gap among all …READ FULL ARTICLE