KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia — A trade deal between the United States and China is drawing ... Trump attended this summit only once during his first term, and U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth seemed unfamiliar with ASEAN during his confirmation hearing ...

President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. has used the Asean Summit and related leaders’ meetings here to criticize China’s illegal activities in the South China Sea.

It may not be on the official agenda at the Association of Southeast Asian Nations summit this week but leaders are bound to be discussing how the two superpowers are trying to make smaller Asian nations choose a side.

Malaysian PM Anwar Ibrahim will host leaders from ASEAN member states, along with leaders from the United States, China, Japan, South Korea, and other key partners, for the three-day summit under the theme “Inclusivity and Sustainability”.

Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim on Monday urged Asia-Pacific leaders to choose dialogue over coercion and cooperation over confrontation, as he opened the East Asia summit at a time of sharpening rivalry between the United States and China.

READ: Marcos urges stepped-up maritime cooperation at Asean-US summit amid China's WPS aggression President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. called for stepped-up maritime cooperation in the region in the face of China’s aggressive activities in the West Philippine Sea before a summit between US President Donald Trump and leaders of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) in Kuala Lumpur,

Southeast Asian foreign ministers held talks Saturday ahead of a landmark ASEAN summit that will formally welcome East Timor as the bloc’s 11th member and mark US President Donald Trump’s first trip to Asia since returning to the White House.

The talks, taking place on the sidelines of the ASEAN summit, come days after Trump threatened to impose 100% tariffs on Chinese goods starting November 1 in retaliation for Beijing’s expanded export