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.

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 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 ...

The United States Secretary of Defense proposed to ASEAN defense ministers the building of shared maritime domain awareness and said China had shown a lack of respect and threatened their territorial ...

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 ...

Hours later, he struck a notably softer tone online, saying that US–China ties have “never been better” and that both sides agreed to set up direct military communication channels ...

It’s the second upgrade of the ASEAN-China Free Trade Area (ACFTA) that was first inked in 2002 - making it then China’s ...