A new version of the ASEAN-China free trade deal, bolstered by positive impacts from other major deals, could help improve Vietnam-China trade and investment ties.
Leaders of Japan and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations are expected to agree on expanding their relations in the economic and security fields at a summit to commemorate 50 years of their friendship and cooperation.
Japan and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations will map out a "new vision" of cooperation in various fields in a joint statement to be issued after a commemorative leaders' summit in Tokyo later this week, the government says.
DURING a stop recently at the Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies in Honolulu on his way home from the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit, President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. announced that the Philippines would be working on a Code of Conduct (COC) with Asean countries that would be separate from the COC that the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) has been negotiating with China for two decades.
LAST July 13, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) and China came together in Jakarta, Indonesia, and agreed on guidelines to accelerate and expedite the negotiations of the highly anticipated Code of Conduct (COC) for the South China Sea (SCS). The guidelines were adopted in a meeting between China s top diplomat Wang Yi and Asean foreign ministers in Jakarta, where the group was holding its annual foreign ministers and related meetings. This pivotal event marked a significant milestone, given that the negotiations on the COC have been stalled for some time because of various reasons, including the Covid-19 pandemic, which made it more challenging to hold face-to-face meetings.