Antony Blinken

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken set low goals for his visit to Beijing this week, and he met them.

Over four months after a previously planned trip was canceled due to “balloon-gate,” Antony Blinken is reportedly heading to Beijing.

Despite auspicious diplomatic recent developments, an upgrade of the bilateral relationship remains unlikely, at least for now.

Washington wants to raise relations to the level of a "strategic relationship," but Vietnamese leaders are moving cautiously, in light of the likely reaction from China.

The 2+2 meeting of defense and foreign ministers coincided with the opening of the largest-ever iteration of the annual Balikatan military exercise.

This is the first such meeting to take place since late in the administration of President Benigno Aquino III.

China's foreign minister met with his counterparts from Russia and India at a meeting dominated by discussions of the Ukraine war.

Antony Blinken's first trip to Central Asia will involve bilateral meetings with all five of his regional counterparts, plus a convening of the C5+1 format.

Sections of China’s officialdom and academia are adamant that the U.S. secretary of state should not be welcome in Beijing. 

The Chinese foreign minister stressed to his U.S. counterpart that Washington should not expect Beijing to change course.

Walden Bello's arrest is an indication that the Philippines remains on the same downward human rights trajectory under President Ferdinand Marcos Jr.