US Secretary of State Marco Rubio and China Foreign Minister Wang Yi attended separate meetings with their ASEAN counterparts in Kuala Lumpur on Thursday (Jul 10).

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi joins hands with ASEAN foreign ministers for a group photo during the ASEAN Post-Ministerial Conference with China at the Kuala Lumpur Convention

The nuclear ban treaty, established in 1997, limits the member nations' use of nuclear weapons to peaceful purposes, like power generation.

Asean maintained its strategic equilibrium in navigating ties with global powers, engaging with China and the United States and other global powers in a series of high-level discussions on the third day of the 58th Asean Foreign Ministers' Meeting (AMM) and Related Meetings held here.

China will sign up to a Southeast Asian treaty banning nuclear weapons in the region as soon as all documentation is ready, Malaysia's foreign minister said on Thursday.

First Vice Foreign Minister Park Yoon-joo had brief encounters with the top diplomats of China and Japan in Malaysia on Thursday, marking the first such in-person exchanges between senior diplomats of the three Asian neighbors since the launch of the Lee Jae Myung government.

Foreign Minister Wang Yi has spoken about closer cooperation between China and Southeast Asian nations at an Asean foreign ministers' meeting in

Malaysia’s foreign minister underscores the importance of peace and security in a region increasingly sandwiched between the US and China.

Asia-Pacific's largest security forum was set to begin Thursday as top diplomats gathered in Malaysia, but steep tariffs by U.S. President Donald Trump are expected to overshadow the annual gatherings.

Russia and China would be the first nuclear powers to sign a treaty barring use of the weapons in Southeast Asia.

BEIJING: China said Thursday (July 10) it had cracked three spying plots, including one in which a public servant was lured by the "seductive beauty" of a foreign agent, urging government workers to remain vigilant against overseas threats.