Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi met with Thai Foreign Minister Don Pramudwinai and Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop Saturday on the sidelines of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) foreign ministers' meeting and related meetings.[More]
Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi on Saturday spoke highly of the foreign ministers' meeting of the 10 member states of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and China, Japan and South Korea (10+3).[More]
While US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo's elaboration on a free and open Indo-Pacific at a business forum in Washington on Monday, two days before he embarked on a trip to Asia, was not short of lofty words and promises, it did lack honesty, sincerity and substance.[More]
China and all the 10 members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations have agreed on a "milestone" single draft text as they negotiate the Code of Conduct in the South China Sea, Singaporean Foreign Minister Vivian Balakrishnan said.[More]
The foreign ministers of China and ASEAN sent the unmistakable message that the two sides are determined to steadily push for a rules-based mechanism to safeguard peace and stability in the waters when they announced they had agreed on an initial negotiating draft for the Code of Conduct in the South China Sea at their meeting in Singapore on Thursday.[More]
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