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An unnamed U.S. official told Reuters that China and Russia rejected a joint statement of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) at its East Asia summit in Vientiane, Laos. The summit was dominated by tensions resulting from territorial disputes in ...
Clashes on South China Sea, Ukraine Dominate Asia Summit
By Shaun Tandon and Thanaporn Promyamyai The United States and its allies clashed on Friday with Russia and China at a summit in Laos dominated by disputes on maritime claims and Ukraine. World leaders descended ...
Blinken at ASEAN Meet Condemns China’s ‘Increasingly Dangerous’ Sea Moves
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken condemned Beijing's "increasingly dangerous" actions in the South China Sea and voiced support for freedom of navigation as he met leaders of the ASEAN bloc on Friday. "We remain concerned about China's increasingly dangerous and ...
WEEK IN REVIEW: Chinese Embassy Warns Citizens Against Visiting Pakistan
On Saturday, the Chinese government updated the number of its nationals evacuated from Lebanon to 215. The embassy in Beirut has not confirmed how many of its citizens remain in the country. Last week, the embassy in Tehran issued a preliminary advisory that Chinese nationals should take "precautionary ...
Judd Devermont on the State of U.S. Foreign Policy in Africa
U.S. President Joe Biden was supposed to be in Angola this week, fulfilling a pledge to visit the continent he made back at the 2022 U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit. But with massive hurricanes pounding the southern United States, the president was forced ...
Taiwan President Lai Vows to ‘Resist Annexation’ of Island
By Joy Chiang and Amber Wang Taiwan's President Lai Ching-te vowed Thursday to "resist annexation" as China exerts growing military and political pressure on the self-ruled island it claims as part of its territory. China ...
Blinken Arrives at Asia Summit With Firm Line on Myanmar, China
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrived in Laos on Thursday for the East Asia Summit, where he will push a firm line on Myanmar's junta and Beijing's assertive actions in the South China Sea. In a shift of focus after ...
Commodities Face Economic, Geopolitical Complications in China
Mixed economic messages from Beijing and complex geopolitics are complicating global minerals and commodities trade. As Chinese markets reopened after last week’s holiday, iron ore prices slid back from a five-year high as the market reevaluated stimulus measures announced last week. Investors ...
U.S., UK Conservatives Fear Chagos Island Handover is an Intelligence Gift to China
Current and former conservative lawmakers in the U.S. and UK are condemning a British government deal to handover the Chagos Islands to Mauritius over concerns that it could pave the way for a Chinese military base on the Indian Ocean archipelago. ...
Climate Change, Economics Muddy West’s Drive to Curb Chinese EVs
By Oliver Hotham and Mary Yang China's meteoric rise as the world's powerhouse of electric vehicle production makes Western efforts to curb their exports a tough sell -- and means they could even stifle the fight against climate change, analysts warn. ...
U.S., India to Cooperate on Critical Minerals: Statement
The United States and India are set to work together on supply chains for critical minerals that are key to clean energy technologies, the U.S. Commerce Department said Thursday in a statement. U.S. Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo and India's Minister of ...
“No Clear Evidence” that Vietnam Facilitates Chinese Exports to the U.S.: IMF
An investigation by the International Monetary Fund has found no clear evidence that Vietnam is used as a waystation to facilitate Chinese imports to the United States. The study examined backward trade linkages with China in Vietnamese exports to the United ...