China wants to become technologically self-reliant in 10 years but needs help for now
COVID-19 recovery and the signing of a giant free trade partnership overshadowed the South China Sea sovereignty flap at summits, plus no one has offered new solutions for the dispute
The projected US president-elect is expected to keep resisting Chinese maritime expansion and use dialogue more than Trump does
Projected winner of America’s presidential election wants stronger US relationship with Taiwan, while leaders in Taipei hope for the same
The White House National Security Advisor says the fleet would take on the 'harassment of vessels operating in the exclusive economic zones of other countries in the Indo-Pacific'
State Department announced three arms packages since October 2; it used to clear about one a year
Philippine Department of Energy lifted a moratorium on exploration in South China Sea after six years
The most powerful typhoon of the year so far killed at least 20 people in the Philippines Sunday but spared many more because of preparedness and a weakening of the storm earlier than expected
The Quad, a US-led network of countries suspicious of Chinese expansion, invited Vietnam to talks this year because it was already chairing the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, analysts say
Journalists digging into crime and corruption connected to powerful political families in the Philippines at risk of threat, or worse
An omnibus bill passed in early October will attract investors to labor-intensive sectors of the economy but reduce the rights of workers, analysts say
Taiwan and China, military rivals for decades, had agreed tacitly to observe a military no-fly line in the ocean strait between them, but officials in Beijing now say there's no line
Leaders in ruling Communist Party set economic development goals this month to add jobs, in turn creating wealth
60 US surveillance planes flew just off China’s coastline in September, a Chinese think tank says
Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi visited five countries last week to talk about trade and post-COVID-19 recovery
Back-to-back tropical storms Linfa and Nangka killed more than two dozen people and wiped out 84,000 hectares of cropland
The armed forces lack enthusiastic troops and a full slate of homegrown advanced weapons, defense experts say
PM Yoshihide Suga proposes visiting Indonesia and Vietnam this month to shore up relations that are key to the US goal of containing China’s reach in Southeast Asia
Civil war-hit Marawi City and the surrounding Lanao del Sur province are under stay-home orders again, just 10 months after martial law was lifted
The US-Mekong Partnership signed in September will let Washington help Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam ease droughts and COVID-19
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