China and the ASEAN bloc of Southeast Asian nations signed an upgrade to their free trade agreement on Tuesday, with leaders ...

U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth urges Southeast Asian nations to strengthen their maritime forces to counter China's ...

China has signed an expanded free trade agreement with the Association of Southeast Asian Nations. Premier Li Qiang has ...

Beijing is hoping to use an expanded free trade deal to portray itself as the bloc’s alternative to the United States.

U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth spoke on Friday with counterparts from China and India, beginning a series of ...

Diverging pressures from the United States and China at the ASEAN summit have led some member states to fear that the era of ...

The announcement came after China’s Premier Li Qiang called on his Asian counterparts to “uphold free trade and the ...

The agreement would allow their forces to hold joint battle-readiness drills and expand a web of security alliances to deter ...

The free trade area covers a combined market of more than 2 billion people, lowers tariffs on goods, and boosts flows of ...

War Secretary Pete Hegseth says he had a "positive" meeting with China’s defense chief Dong Jun as both sides agreed to open ...

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Malaysia handed over the chairmanship of Southeast Asia's regional bloc to the Philippines on Tuesday (Oct 28), with ...