The development is logically consistent with ASEAN’s commitment to boosting ASEAN-U.S. relations. Essentially, it was ASEAN’s diplomatic choice to navigate relations with America and secure greater value in competition between major countries.
The call for an accelerated move to build a unified national market essentially unmasked stumbling blocks to free movement of resources such as goods, people, and ideas in the domestic market.
Growing dissent against the death penalty is unprecedentedly visible in Singapore, but the government is not expected to make a U-turn from its long-standing stance.
Marcos Jr. has repeatedly said that the Philippines is in a delicate situation to maintain both a special relationship with the U.S. and a good relationship with China.
Raising the fertility rate is no walk in the park. To address this tough challenge, China is working to develop and refine national strategic proposals, medium and long-term plans, and local policy deployment.
A landmark project in building a China-Laos community of shared future, the CLR will make cultural and people-to-people exchanges more frequent and bilateral relations even closer.
The Biden administration’s push for an anti-China Indo-Pacific strategy will not only threaten China but also undermine the cohesiveness of ASEAN countries.
The signing of the RCEP agreement has laid the foundation for the realization of a China-Japan-South Korea Free Trade Zone.
China’s independence, and the efforts of other nations in the South to find their own independent ways, arduous as they are, ultimately are not compatible with Washington’s intensely ideological American-centric globalism.
Those who recognize China’s unprecedented success in both pandemic control and poverty alleviation must also recognize its causal relationship to China’s overall Party leadership, and a strong, command-down, Party-led government.
China and the UK, which have both set ambitious carbon emissions target, have much in common and could lead the way in a ‘unique collaboration’ ahead of vital climate talks in the coming months.
Masks and gloves, coming from different places, are exchanged, through the world, where help is needed. This is the good side of globalization: you can count on friends from different places.