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 ...

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 ...

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

Pete Hegseth's remarks came just hours after the US defence chief urged Southeast Asian nations to stand firm and strengthen ...

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

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

U.S. and China establish military communication channels, signalling improved relations amid ongoing tensions in the South China Sea.

Beyond trade, cooperation between ASEAN and China can also be stepped up in areas such as connectivity and the green economy, ...

US Secretary of Defence Pete Hegseth joined hands with his Chinese counterpart, Adm. Dong Jun, to create US-China military ...