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

Additionally, Timor-Leste will likely become part of the Initiative for ASEAN Integration (IAI), says Joanne Lin, a senior ...

The United States' offer of cooperation to Asean must be grounded in the Asean Defence Ministers' Meeting (ADMM) framework and uphold the bloc's centrality, says Defence Minister Datuk Seri Mohamed ...

President Donald Trump, during his trip to Asia, will participate in the 47th ASEAN Summit in Malaysia before making stops in ...

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 ...

East Timor has been formally admitted into the Association of Southeast Asian Nations in the group’s first expansion since ...

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

The former Portuguese colony, once called East Timor, has come a long way since 2002, when it gained independence from ...

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

The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) is convening its 47th summit, alongside the East Asia Summit (EAS) and other side meetings ...

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