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ASEAN leaders are meeting with their US, Chinese and Japanese counterparts on Wednesday in a series of high-level meetings. The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) is holding successive summits in Jakarta with China, Japan, South Korea and the United States. Wednesday's meetings will have a more regional scope ahead of Thursday's East Asia summit, which is expected to cover major geopolitical issues with 18 countries present, and which will be attended by Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov. The dispute between China and Japan over the discharge of treated sewage from the Fukushima nuclear power plant could again create waves.
On August 31, in coordination with the Republic of Korea (South Korea) and Japan, the US Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) sanctioned two individuals.