Chinese State Councilor and Defense Minister Wei Fenghe (C) delivers a speech at the 9th Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Defense Ministers' Meeting Plus in Siem Reap, Cambodia, Nov. 23, 2022. (Photo by Li Xiaowei/Xinhua) SIEM REAP, Cambodia, Nov. 23 (Xinhua) -- Chinese St...
Geopolitical uncertainties in Southeast Asia make this year's Association of Southeast Asian Nations' (ASEAN) Defense Ministers Meeting mainly a U.S.-China show. The most contentious issue in the region -- the South China Sea -- is not on the agenda, and the meeting is not likely to ...
20 -- The 5th Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Defense Ministers' Meeting (ADMM)-Plus wrapped up here Saturday, with Chinese State Councilor and Defense Minister Wei Fenghe being one of its participants. The meeting was attended by the Defense Ministers of ASEAN member countries as...
The experts met for the Expert Working Group on Humanitarian Mine Action (HMA EWG) under the fifth ASEAN Defense Ministers Meeting-Plus (ADMM Plus). During the two-day meeting which is co-chaired by Laos and Russia, the experts will exchange lessons and best practices on humanitarian mine act...
The ongoing ASEAN Defence Ministers Meeting-Plus in Malaysia has failed to reach a joint declaration that was expected to be released today. No agreement reached at ASEAN Defense Ministers Meeting But Malaysia's Defense Minister, Hisham-muddin Hussein, acknowledged that the participants failed to reac...
The exercises, under the framework of the Experts' Working Group of counterterrorism of the ASEAN Defence Ministers' Meeting-Plus, kicked off in Guilin, Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region, on Wednesday. More than 800 officers and soldiers from 18 countries, as well as the ASEAN Center of Military...
The ASEAN Defense Industry Collaboration (ADIC) was proposed at the 4th ASEAN Defense Ministers' Meeting (ADMM) on 11 May 2010 in Hanoi.[126] It has the purpose, among others, to reduce defense imports from non-ASEAN countries by half and to further develop the defense industry in the regi...
Last week, at the ASEAN Defense Ministers' Meeting-Plus, the ministers reaffirmed the exercise as an important confidence-building measure, he said. The drill marks the first time ASEAN as a whole has held a military exercise with a single country, and the first time China has held a marit...
The ministers also reaffirmed the central role of ASEAN as the primary driving force in enhancing defense and security cooperation and confidence building measures with its external partners with the common objective to maintain peace, security and prosperity in an open, transparent and inclusive region...
Secretary General Shi Zhongjun of the ASEAN-China Centre (ACC) was invited to attend and address the 24th Meeting of ASEAN Plus Three (24th M-ATM+3) Tourism Ministers in Johor Bahru, Malaysia. The meeting was co-chaired...