US Secretary of State Marco Rubio and China Foreign Minister Wang Yi attended separate meetings with their ASEAN counterparts in Kuala Lumpur on Thursday (Jul 10).

Asean maintained its strategic equilibrium in navigating ties with global powers, engaging with China and the United States and other global powers in a series of high-level discussions on the third day of the 58th Asean Foreign Ministers' Meeting (AMM) and Related Meetings held here.

China will sign up to a Southeast Asian treaty banning nuclear weapons in the region as soon as all documentation is ready, Malaysia's foreign minister said on Thursday.

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi joins hands with ASEAN foreign ministers for a group photo during the ASEAN Post-Ministerial Conference with China at the Kuala Lumpur Convention

Asia-Pacific's largest security forum was set to begin Thursday as top diplomats gathered in Malaysia, but steep tariffs by U.S. President Donald Trump are expected to overshadow the annual gatherings.

The redeployments would encourage allies to shoulder more of their defense and leave U.S. forces less vulnerable to mass missile attacks, the analysts say.

Malaysia's Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim on Wednesday urged Southeast Asian countries to "act with purpose" and enhance trade among each other in the face of global uncertainty, as regional foreign ministers met amid renewed jitters over U.

First Vice Foreign Minister Park Yoon-joo had brief encounters with the top diplomats of China and Japan in Malaysia on Thursday, marking the first such in-person exchanges between senior diplomats of the three Asian neighbors since the launch of the Lee Jae Myung government.

Russia and China would be the first nuclear powers to sign a treaty barring use of the weapons in Southeast Asia.

Foreign ministers from China and members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations have discussed bolstering economic ties.

Every investment is a gamble’, and Chinese factories face ‘huge losses’ by operating in Southeast Asian countries facing Trump’s tariffs, according to industry insiders.