Indonesia treads tight line between China and US
(WorldNews Indonesia)

JAKARTA - When China and Indonesia´s Natuna maritime stand-off nearly boiled over last month, President Joko Widodo - a leader not known for his abiding interest in foreign relations - did what may come naturally to him these days. He picked up the phone and called his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping, just about the time the Communist Party leader was beginning to grasp the gravity of the coronavirus epidemic now gripping his country. It isn´t known what was said on the high-level call, government sources say, but by the time Widodo paid a flying visit to the island of Natuna Besar the next day, intruding Chinese Coast Guard (CCG) vessels and fishing boats had already begun to withdraw. `I...