The U.S. Secretary of State called China's activities in the South China Sea," increasingly dangerous and unlawful."

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken told Southeast Asian leaders Friday that the U.S. is concerned about China’s “increasingly dangerous and unlawful” activities in the disputed South China Sea during an annual summit meeting,

Chinese Premier Li Qiang has called for deeper market integration with Southeast Asia during annual summit talks where territorial disputes in the South China Sea are likely to be high on the agenda

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China will resume imports of Australian lobster by year-end, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said on Thursday, marking the end of a four-year diplomatic fight that saw tens of billions of dollars of Australian exports locked out of China.

China will lift a ban on the lucrative trade in Australian lobster, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said on Thursday, ending a broader, multi-billion dollar trade war.

Beijing claims democratically governed Taiwan as its own territory, a view Lai and his government reject. Giving a keynote national address outside the presidential office in Taipei, Lai reiterated that the Republic of China - the island's formal name - and the People's Republic of China are "not subordinate to each other".