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

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

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

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

Defense secretary praises U.S.-China relations but says better communications needed to “deconflict and deescalate any problems that arise.” ...

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

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

Pentagon chief Pete Hegseth called on Southeast Asia to strengthen cooperation in maritime surveillance including the use of unmanned technologies to counter what he said was worsening aggression by ...

The US has condemned China’s claim over Scarborough Shoal, urging ASEAN nations to stand firm against Beijing’s growing ...

Under Malaysia’s chairmanship, the bloc brought Cambodia and Thailand back to the negotiation table for a comprehensive ...