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 ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

A Mindanao lawmaker on Saturday called on ASEAN member-states and China to support the completion of the Code of Conduct (COC ...

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

China pressed on Monday for open trade and stronger economic ties at a regional summit in Malaysia dominated by the shadow of ...