Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi meets with his Filipino counterpart, Enrique Manalo, on the sidelines of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) summit in Laos. "We did agree that we would honor the provisional agreement in a clear and sincere effort to defuse tensions and try and prevent any incidents,” Manalo says after the meeting. A series of clashes have happened between Philippine and Chinese vessels at flashpoint reefs in the South China Sea in recent months. Beijing claims the waterway -- through which trillions of dollars of trade passes annually -- almost in its entirety despite an international court ruling that its assertion has no legal basis. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES