and if Beijing were to further its assertiveness in the South China Sea. As Asean's rotating chair, Laos is expected to help lower tensions in the region, not adding fuel to the fire by siding ...

Southeast Asian foreign ministers are gathering for their first meeting this year under the regional bloc’s new chair, ...

Defense leaders from Southeast Asia convened in Laos on Wednesday to address escalating ... Beijing asserts sovereignty over nearly the entire South China Sea, a stance widely contested by ASEAN ...

Now Laos, the bloc’s poorest and one of its ... China over its claims of sovereignty over virtually the entire South China Sea, one of the world’s most crucial waterways for shipping.

VIENTIANE, Laos--Southeast Asian foreign ministers ... increasingly violent civil war in Myanmar, tensions in the South China Sea and other regional issues. U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken ...

ASEAN held its annual summit in Laos this week, in part to discuss territorial tensions in the South China Sea. China has made expansive and legally dubious claims to nearly all of the sea ...

Applying this model to the South China Sea would likely entail giving sovereignty ... The United States, China, and all ASEAN members with the exception of Laos and Burma are members of the ...

From left to right, Laos's Foreign Affairs Minister Thongsavanh Phomvihane, Myanmar's Permanent Secretary to ASEAN Aung Kyaw Moe, Singapore's Foreign Minister Vivian Balakrishnan, Thailand's ...