Government agents in some countries used stay-home orders to squelch political dissent or bar marginal population groups from aid, human rights groups say.
Chinese officials and their families face US travel restrictions, while 60 Chinese companies are curbed from doing normal business in the US.
Credited with successfully controlling COVID-19 outbreak, Health Minister Chen Shih-chung urges vigilance despite expanding inoculation campaigns.
After four years of warming toward Taiwan, despite China, U.S. President Donald Trump’s government throws out pro-China rules that have limited visits between senior-level officials.
Asian leaders are used to U.S. counterparts telling them how to run a democracy. After Wednesday's Capitol Hill melee, they wonder why.
US Department of Commerce says exporters from South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand and Vietnam have 'dumped' passenger tires at low prices in the United States for years.
Chinese authorities hope to stem any outflow of migrant workers while both sides want to squelch the smuggling of wood, animals and consumer goods.
China says it believes in spreading its anti-COVID vaccine beyond the world’s wealthiest countries; its image is at stake in some of those places.
Trump’s one-on-one approach to countries in Asia came off as volatile. Biden is considered more likely to value the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, a 10-member negotiating bloc.
Legislators in Taipei gave final clearance last week to lift a ban on pork from pigs fed the ractopamine additive.
Vietnamese officials might agree to buy more US imports to close trade imbalance or sign agreement that covers some of Washington’s complaints.
Chinese authorities are putting up a barrier along their southeastern border with Shan State, a volatile part of Myanmar, media reports say.
Analysts believe the magazine Naval and Merchant Ships is sending a message to the incoming Biden administration.
The country’s navy chief of staff said Nov. 23 the headquarters would relocate permanently from Jakarta to the Natuna islands 1,100 kilometers away.
China National Offshore Oil Corp. landed last week on a list of 35 firms believed to be aligned with the Chinese military, and Americans are banned from trading company shares.
Officials, backed by compliant local populations, are avoiding crowds, wearing masks, and homeschooling to stop late-2020 virus outbreaks from expanding.
A reciprocal access agreement due to be reached next year would let Japanese and Australian troops train in each other's territories.
The Royal Malaysian navy is tailing a Chinese coast guard vessel that sailed unusually close to Malaysia, analysts say.
COVID-19 recovery and the signing of a giant free trade partnership overshadowed the South China Sea sovereignty flap at summits, plus no one has offered new solutions for the dispute.
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