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Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and French President Emmanuel Macron agreed to strengthen their military cooperation on Thursday. Kishida met with the French president over lunch at the Elysée Palace in Paris where they discussed a possible Reciprocal Access Agreement (RAA) after the Japanese prime minister attended a forum at the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). The RAA could facilitate military cooperation by allowing the entry of foreign personnel and conducting joint drills in maritime waters. 'China's attempts to change status quo is concerning'Their me...
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The United States and China butted heads over several contentious issues when US Secretary of State Antony Blinken met with Chinese President Xi Jinping and other senior Chinese officials on Friday. Talks between the two sides have increased in recent months, despite a widening gap in politics. Both nations have underscored the importance of keeping lines of communication open, while lamenting that divisions were becoming more serious. These divisions were highlighted last week after US President Joe Biden signed a €89 billion foreign aid bill for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan. This bill included...
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KUALA LUMPUR, Apr 22, 2024 - (ACN Newswire) - Leading regional commentator, and analyst, Eddin Khoo, and Crisis Management Centre founder, Nordin Abdullah, are starting a series of talks in the ASEAN region on issues around the South China Sea. The objective of these talks is to achieve a nuanced understanding of the activities surrounding this critical waterway and the potential impact on the corporate sector. The Malaysia Global Business Forum (MGBF) in collaboration with the Crisis Management Centre will be hosting the first talk in this series in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, on Wednesday (24 Ap...
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The guided-missile destroyer USS Milius conducted a freedom of navigation operation in the Spratly Islands to uphold the “lawful uses of the sea.”
KOMPAS.com \- A US warship sailed near a chain of islands Monday, April 10, claimed by China, the Philippines, as well as other nations and Taiwan, while China held its third day of military exercises around self-governed Taiwan. The US Navy said the guided-missile destroyer USS Milius conducted a freedom of navigation operation near Mischief Reef in the Spratly Islands, a group of dozens of islands between Vietnam and the Philippines, to uphold the “lawful uses of the sea.” “USS Milius demonstrated that Mischief Reef, a low-tide elevation in it its natural state, is not entitled to a territor...
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China has pledged to work with the ASEAN countries, including Indonesia as the current rotating chair, to accelerate negotiations on CoC.
JAKARTA, KOMPAS.com \- China has pledged to work with the ASEAN countries, including Indonesia as the current rotating chair, to accelerate negotiations on the code of conduct (CoC) on the South China Sea, said China's Foreign Minister Qin Gang. Qin made the statement while speaking at a joint presser with his Indonesian counterpart Retno Marsudi in Jakarta on Wednesday, Feb. 22 during the 4th Indonesia-China Joint Commission for Bilateral Cooperation (JCBC). It was his first visit to the region since taking office at the end of 2022. “Both China and Indonesia will work with other ASEAN countr...
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Exercises involving ships, ground forces, and aircraft took place Saturday, Feb. 11 but gave no details on when they began or whether they had ended.
BEIJING, KOMPAS.com \- The US Navy and Marine Corps are holding joint exercises in the South China Sea at a time of heightened tensions with Beijing over the shooting down of a suspected Chinese spy balloon. The 7th Fleet based in Japan said Sunday, Feb. 12 that the USS Nimitz aircraft carrier strike group and the 13th Marine Expeditionary Unit have been conducting "integrated expeditionary strike force operations" in the South China Sea. It said exercises involving ships, ground forces, and aircraft took place Saturday, Feb. 11 but gave no details on when they began or whether they had ended....
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Mahfud will accompany President Joko Widodo – who will officially take over the ASEAN chair from Cambodia – to the summit.
JAKARTA, KOMPAS.com \- The ASEAN Summit in Phnom Penh, Cambodia from Nov. 9–12 will discuss cooperation in the field of democracy and human rights, said an Indonesian chief minister. "A number of strategic topics will be discussed at the forum, including cooperation in the field of democracy, human rights, intelligence, and common security," said Coordinating Minister for Political Legal and Security Affairs Mahfud MD on Monday, Nov. 7. Mahfud will accompany President Joko Widodo – who will officially take over the ASEAN chair from Cambodia – to the summit. Also read: ASEAN Foreign Ministers H...
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Southeast Asian foreign ministers will seek ways to help calm rising tensions over Taiwan at regional talks.
PHNOM PENH, KOMPAS.com \- Southeast Asian foreign ministers will seek ways to help calm rising tensions over Taiwan at regional talks Wednesday, Aug. 3, after US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi arrived on the island, enraging Beijing. Pelosi’s dramatic late-night arrival in Taipei, defying threats of reprisals by China, looks set to dominate the meeting of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) in Phnom Penh, which had been due to focus on the bloody crisis in Myanmar. Attention will focus instead on Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi and his American counterpart Antony Blinken -- both fl...
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Myanmar has been in chaos since a putsch in February last year and the death toll from the military’s brutal crackdown on dissent has passed 2,100.
PHNOM PENH, KOMPAS.com \- Malaysia is set to lead a push for tougher action on Myanmar when a regional bloc of foreign ministers meet this week, as anger mounts at the junta for stonewalling crisis resolution efforts. The 10-country Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) -- which has spearheaded so far fruitless diplomatic efforts to restore peace -- last week condemned the junta’s execution of four prisoners. Myanmar has been in chaos since a putsch in February last year and the death toll from the military’s brutal crackdown on dissent has passed 2,100, according to a local monitorin...
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Such operations are considered key to the US Navy maintaining its presence in the Indo-Pacific.
BEIJING, KOMPAS.com \- The US Navy on Wednesday, July 13, sailed a destroyer close to China-controlled islands in the South China Sea in what Washington said was a patrol aimed at asserting freedom of navigation through the strategic seaway. The guided-missile destroyer USS Benfold sailed past the Paracel Islands and continued thereafter with operations in the South China Sea. The operation “upheld the rights, freedoms, and lawful uses of the sea,” the 7th Fleet said in a news release. Such operations are considered key to the US Navy maintaining its presence in the Indo-Pacific, where China h...
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