Category: ASEAN

According to a May 28 report by Vietnam News Agency, ASEAN leaders have agreed in principle to admit Timor-Leste as the bloc’s 11th member at the upcoming ASEAN Summit in October.  The announcement initially flew under the radar on Chinese social ...

In a joint statement released on Monday, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) repeated its rejection of current U.S. trade restrictions. The ten-country group listed the following countermeasures: Increase trade and investment among ASEAN members ...

This week’s landmark meeting between China, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), and the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) is arguably one of the most notable international responses to the Trump administration’s attempts to remake the global trading system we’ve seen so far.

The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) is reaching out to China and the Gulf Cooperation Council (Saudi Arabia, UAE, Oman, Qatar, Kuwait, and Bahrain) to improve trade ties as it faces ongoing trade tensions with the United States. Leaders met ...

By Jan Hennop and Isabelle Leong Southeast Asian leaders met Monday in Kuala Lumpur for their first summit since U.S. President Donald Trump's tariffs upended global economic norms, with the trade-dependent nations expected to issue a joint message of deep concern. ...

Chinese Premier Li Qiang warned on Sunday that the rise of "unilateralism and protectionism" could threaten the global economic and trade order, as he  reaffirmed Beijing's ties with Jakarta on Sunday during his visit to Indonesia ahead of a regional summit in Kuala Lumpur. ...

By Jan Hennop in Kuala Lumpur and Martin Abbugao in Singapore Southeast Asian leaders will express deep concern over U.S. President Donald Trump's tariff blitz when they meet at a summit Monday, warning that the unilateral move poses huge challenges to ...

BY Sufian Jusoh and Joanne Lin The ASEAN-GCC-China Economic Summit, set to take place in Kuala Lumpur on 27 May, under the Malaysian Chairmanship of ASEAN, marks a significant diplomatic first. It will bring together leaders from ASEAN, ...

Malaysia's Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim said ahead of a high-stakes ASEAN summit set to open Monday in Kuala Lumpur, Southeast Asia’s 10-nation bloc is called to deepen trade ties with China and other partners as it faces sweeping U.S. tariffs. Prime ...

Chinese President Xi Jinping just concluded his visit to Vietnam, Malaysia, and Cambodia. Even though the visit took place while the world still struggles to understand and cope with President Donald Trump’s policies of imposing tariffs worldwide, it should not be narrowly understood as China’s response to ...

Malaysian PM Anwar Ibrahim warned against "economic tribalism" in a veiled swing to Washington, praising Xi Jinping's conduct as a model of steadiness. Anwar delivered an emphatic endorsement of China’s global role on Wednesday in a speech brimming with ...

The fact that Chinese President Xi Jinping's visit to Vietnam, Malaysia, and Cambodia this week coincided with a dramatic escalation in the U.S. trade war with much of the world is probably coincidental. These kinds of state visits are planned months ...