The Latest Breaking News from Xi Jinping

BANGKOK -- Prime Minister Fumio Kishida's meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping, the first official in-person meeting between leaders of the two nations in almost three years, was a first step toward repairing strained relations, but ironing out several major pending issues looks unlikely to happen anytime soon.

Prime Minister Fumio Kishida received a flurry of requests, as well as professions of hope, from the ruling coalition before the first face-to-face summit between Japan and China in three years.

Chinese President Xi Jinping said on Friday that China would consider hosting the third Belt Road Forum for International Cooperation next year, which would be the first staging of the event since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said she will broach concerns about China's human rights record and geostrategic tension when she meets its president on Friday.

The fate of Myanmar has major implications for a free and open Indo-Pacific.

Leaders of the United States, South Korea, Japan and allied countries held an emergency meeting during the Apec summit in Bangkok on Friday and condemned North Korea’s firing of a suspected intercontinental ballistic missile, calling for a united response.

U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris called an emergency gathering of several allies on the sidelines of an Asia-Pacific economic summit on Friday, emerging with leaders of five other nations to condemn North Korea after it test-fired an intercontinental ballistic missile capable of reaching the United States.

U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris has arrived in Thailand, where she plans to affirm America’s commitment to Southeast Asia and drive home the message that the region can count on the United States

Ahead of first meeting with Xi Jinping in three years, New Zealand PM calls for environment where difference can be discussed