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View all search resultsJapanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida announced that Japan would participate in the Super Garuda Shield joint military exercises cohosted by Indonesia and the United States, amid concerns about China's growing assertiveness.
The regional grouping may be headed for a heated "family intervention" at next week's foreign minister's retreat over its current chair's breakaway visit and joint statement with Myanmar's Min Aung Hlaing last Friday.
Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison said on Tuesday that he had had a “very warm conversation” with President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo by phone on Monday evening to "reassure" him about the new AUKUS partnership with the United States and Britain.
The Indonesian government has once again underlined the lack of security and safety in waters shared with Malaysia and the Philippines, after four Indonesian fishermen were rescued over the weekend more than a year after they were abducted in the tri-border area.
The onset of the COVID-19 pandemic this year has become a major stumbling block for ASEAN and China to conclude talks on a code of conduct (COC) in the South China Sea by 2021, as negotiators were unable to meet physically to negotiate the instrument.
Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga has dismissed China’s concerns that Indo-Pacific cooperation was aimed at establishing “an Indo-Pacific version of NATO”, as he wraps up his first Southeast Asia tour with a visit to Indonesia.
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