In some ways, Southeast Asia significantly supports China’s strategic interests. But the region also presents major challenges for China’s global leadership. Leaders from China and Southeast Asian ...
Since the 1990s, China’s defence white papers have outlined Beijing’s solutions to managing regional security challenges, such as former Chinese president Jiang Zemin’s new security concept and ...
U.S. Army Soldiers assigned to 2nd Battalion, 27th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Infantry Brigade Combat Team, 25th Infantry Division load a CH-47 Chinook helicopter during the air assault operations portion ...
Blog posts represent the views of CFR fellows and staff and not those of CFR, which takes no institutional positions. Over the past fifteen years, China has increasingly become the dominant military ...
In late 2026, Xi Jinping will host a grand gala dinner for the leaders of just over three-fifths of the world economy. The Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit, to be held in China for the ...
Grand promises are standard fare for the Association of South-East Asian Nations (ASEAN). The latest came after a meeting of the bloc’s economic ministers last month in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia’s ...
Karishma Vaswani is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering Asia politics with a special focus on China. Previously, she was the BBC's lead Asia presenter and worked for the BBC across Asia and South ...
From October 31 through November 1, the 12th ASEAN Defense Ministers’ Meeting Plus (ADMM-Plus) took place in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. ADMM-Plus is an annual dialogue of defense ministers from ASEAN and ...