China has been asserting its territorial claims across virtually the entire South China Sea through its 9-dash line in the past years, and while it has faced resistance from other claimants, opposition to its new 10-dash line appears to be more serious.
As New Delhi takes the global stage by leading the Group of 20 summit, President Joe Biden will be there as a cheerleader, even as U.S. policymakers come to accept that India's interests will at times be at odds with Washington's.
Mexico's ruling party on Wednesday named former Mexico City mayor Claudia Sheinbaum as its candidate for the 2024 presidential election, ensuring that for the first time the two main rivals to lead the Latin American power will be women.
At a time when relations between the U.S. and China have soured, Beijing passed a foreign state that "stipulates the rules for Chinese courts to handle civil cases involving a foreign State and its property."
Biden will discuss "a range of joint efforts to tackle global issues" including climate change and "mitigating the economic and social impacts of Russia's war in Ukraine", National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan said ahead of the summit.
Tried in secret for "abusing democratic freedoms" and detained in a psychiatric hospital, journalist Le Anh Hung knows well the price of standing up to Vietnam's communist government.
The G20 summit, which will take place on Sept. 9-10 in New Delhi, was seen as an opportunity for the two leaders to meet after their last encounter on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Indonesia.
More than two years after Myanmar's military junta overthrew the government, unity in the ASEAN bloc is being questioned – Myanmar remains barred from attending summits and Thailand seems to be ready to welcome the country back against an adamant majority.
The leader of Germany's powerful Bavaria state said Sunday he would keep his deputy in the job despite a row over an old anti-Semitic leaflet, hoping to draw a line under the scandal ahead of a regional election.
Malaysia became the first ASEAN member to reject China's claims in its new map, followed by the Philippines. The tensions come as ASEAN countries prepare for its 43rd summit.
Premier Li Qiang might make the trip to New Delhi instead of the Chinese president, according to officials from India and China.
The U.S. military is in talks with the Philippines about building a civilian port on its remote northernmost islands that face Taiwan.
The State Department informed Congress on Tuesday of the $80 million package, which is small compared with recent sales to Taiwan but marks the first assistance to Taipei under the Foreign Military Financing program, which generally involves grants or loans to sovereign countries.
The so-called "standard map" of China, released Monday, includes the Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh and the Aksai Chin plateau--a disputed region controlled by Beijing, but claimed by India--as Chinese territory.
For India, what complicates the issue is that its Quad partner, the U.S., vehemently opposes Bangladesh's current prime minister, Sheikh Hasina, who emerged as one of India's closest allies in the neighborhood since her emergence to power in 2009.
Biden will be traveling to Hanoi on Sept. 10 to discuss ways to "further deepen" the U.S.-Vietnam cooperation, the White House said in a Monday announcement. The visit is set to take place as Washington's concerns remain over China's growing economic and military muscle in the region.
U.S. Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo met with Chinese Commerce Minister Wang Wentao on Monday, with the two sides agreeing to set up a working group to iron out the laundry list of trade disputes between them. They also agreed to set up what Washington called an "export control enforcement information exchange."
Trump will have trials in at least three different criminal cases during the Republican presidential nominations.
Ramaswamy also said that if he got elected, he would avoid war with China over Taiwan while still warding off a Chinese invasion of Taiwan
The Treasury Department published an almost 300-page proposed rule Friday as its response to the 2021 Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, which requires cryptocurrency brokers, including exchanges and payment processors to report new information on users' sales and exchanges of digital assets to the Internal Revenue Service.
The head of Ethiopia's violence-stricken region of Amhara, which the federal government has placed under a state of emergency, has stepped down, according to an official statement reported Friday.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chinese President Xi Jinping agreed to "intensify efforts" to de-escalate tensions along their disputed border.
Hours after news of Prigozhin's presumed death broke, theories emerged about the Russian mercenary chief possibly "faking death," or even evading death, after a second private plane linked to him landed safely near Moscow around the same time as the one supposedly with Prigozhin on board crashed.
Trump, who is accused of colluding with 18 other defendants to overturn the 2020 election result in the southern state, spent less than 30 minutes inside Atlanta's Fulton County Jail before leaving in a motorcade for the airport.
The leader of Russia's Wagner Group has reportedly died alongside nine other passengers and crew onboard a plane that crashed en route to St. Petersburg on Wednesday.
Donald Trump attacked his rivals for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination and Democrat Joe Biden in an interview aired on Wednesday as counter-programming to his party's first primary debate.
While he missed the event, Xi attended a dinner hosted by Ramaphosa later in the evening with leaders of Brazil and India and Russia's foreign minister.
Indian company ONGC Videsh Ltd. (OVL) has secured its eighth contract to explore oil and gas in a Vietnamese block in the South China Sea, despite not having found hydrocarbons in years. An expert said that energy may not be the sole criterion for India-Vietnam deals.
Both sides appear willing to spend a few more weeks or months on finalizing the terms of the agreement instead of concluding on a bad deal.
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