November’s COP30 gathering in Belém, Brazil, marks three decades since COP1 in Berlin in 1995, and raises a sobering reminder of how deep we’ve sunk into a climate morass of our own making amid non-stop warnings. The evacuation of millions of people and the deaths of at least seventeen due to Typhoon Ragasa’s rampage through the Philippines, Taiwan, and China couldn’t have been more pointedly timed as U.S. and Chinese ...
Category: ASEAN
China Leads Influence in Southeast Asia, but Neighbors Come First
China leads the Lowy Institute’s Southeast Asia Influence Index by a point, 65 to 64 over the United States on the latest reading, but the study finds neighbors are more important than any external power, including China. However, Lowy records ...
ASEAN Economic Ministers’ Meeting Pushes Regional Integration Amid Trade Tensions
The trade relationship between China and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) is expected to take center stage at the ASEAN Economic Ministers (AEM) gathering in Kuala Lumpur tomorrow. A consultation between the ten-country bloc and China will happen ...
China–U.S. Rivalry: Singapore FM on ASEAN Pragmatic Non-Alignment
Singapore’s foreign minister, Vivian Balakrishnan, at a public forum moderated on Friday, said Southeast Asia is refusing a China–U.S. binary choice between China and the United States. Balakhrisnan thinks Southeast Asia is pivoting to integration, keeping economies open to ...
ASEAN Parliamentarians Call for China Meeting on Rohingya
ASEAN Parliamentarians for Human Rights (APHR), a body of current and former legislators from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), called for a conference involving the ten member countries of the bloc, Bangladesh, and China to resolve the longstanding problems facing the Rohingya ethnic minority.
China Slams Vietnam Over Island-Building in South China Sea
China condemned Vietnam over a report it had sped up island-building in an area of the disputed South China Sea that Beijing claims as its own. "China firmly opposes the relevant country’s construction activities on islands and reefs they have illegally ...
Vietnam Expands Island-Building in the South China Sea
Vietnam's development of 21 Vietnamese-claimed rocks and low-tide elevations in the South China Sea has expanded considerably since 2021 to the point where it will match and possibly even exceed Chinese reclamation activity in the region. The findings in a new report ...
China Exports Top Forecasts as EU, ASEAN Shipments Offset U.S. Drop
By Isabel Kua and Peter Catterall China's exports rose more than expected last month, with official data on Thursday showing a jump in shipments to the European Union and other markets offsetting a drop in those to the United States.
China Backs ASEAN-Mediated Cambodia and Thailand Ceasefire
Cambodia and Thailand agreed to an immediate and unconditional ceasefire on Monday following a special meeting hosted by Malaysian PM Anwar Ibrahim, as the chair of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). The meeting was attended by leaders from both countries, as well as ...
China to Feature Prominently in Trump-Marcos Talks
Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. faces a tough challenge as he meets with his U.S. counterpart, Donald Trump, on Tuesday. He is expected to raise the long U.S.-Philippine defense relationship in the face of ongoing territorial disputes with China in the South China Sea as a rallying point. ...
U.S. and China Have ‘Positive’ Meeting at ASEAN Foreign Minister Talks
By Leon Bruneau and Jan Hennop U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Chinese top diplomat Wang Yi had a "positive" meeting in Malaysia on Friday, both sides said, in an apparent bid to ease tensions between the rival powers.
Rubio to Meet China’s Wang on Sidelines of ASEAN Talks
By Léon Bruneau U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio will meet his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi on Friday on the sidelines of an ASEAN foreign ministers' meet in Malaysia, the State Department said. The meeting ...
Rubio to Attend ASEAN Meeting in First Asia Trip
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio will make his first trip to Asia since taking up his post, traveling this week to Malaysia for meetings with ASEAN counterparts, his office said Monday. The trip, starting Tuesday, will see Rubio, who is ...