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View all search resultsThe 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.
The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic has spilled over into regional geopolitics as it threatens to delay the completion of the elusive Code of Conduct (COC) for the South China Sea, with ASEAN and Chinese officials unable to meet face-to-face at the negotiating table.
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