{"id":111218,"date":"2021-06-08T18:21:10","date_gmt":"2021-06-08T12:51:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=111218"},"modified":"2021-06-08T18:21:30","modified_gmt":"2021-06-08T12:51:30","slug":"china-hosts-asean-foreign-ministers-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/china-hosts-asean-foreign-ministers-meeting\/","title":{"rendered":"China hosts &#8220;ASEAN foreign ministers meeting&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><\/h5>\n<h5><strong>What is the news?<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p>China is hosting ASEAN foreign ministers meeting this year. This year (2021) also marks the<strong> 30<sup>th<\/sup> anniversary<\/strong> of the dialogue relations between China and the 10-member ASEAN countries. Association of Southeast Asian Nations<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read Also :-<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/india-and-east-asia-relations\/\">India and East Asia Relations<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<h5><strong>Key Focus of the ASEAN foreign ministers meeting:<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p>The meeting will focus on<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Combating COVID-19<\/li>\n<li>Promoting economic recovery<\/li>\n<li>Discussing the proposal of vaccine passport connecting China and ASEAN countries<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5><strong>Significance of this ASEAN foreign ministers meeting:<\/strong><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li>This meeting <strong>comes in the backdrop<\/strong> of China criticizing the <a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/quad-and-its-relevance-explained-pointwise\/\">Quad<\/a> (India, Australia, Japan and the United States grouping) during recent visits to Sri Lanka and Bangladesh.<\/li>\n<li>China\u2019s Defence Minister has called on both countries to <strong>reject \u201cmilitary alliances\u201d<\/strong> \u2014 a term that China is using to describe the Quad but a label that the Quad group rejects.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Read Also :-<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/india-and-asean\/\">India and ASEAN<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<h5><strong>China and ASEAN Cooperation:<\/strong><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li>China and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations(ASEAN) countries established a <strong>strategic partnership<\/strong> in 2005.<\/li>\n<li><strong>China-ASEAN free trade zone <\/strong>was formally established in the year 2010.<\/li>\n<li><strong>China and ASEAN countries <\/strong>are a part of the <a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/india-exits-rcep\/\">Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP)<\/a> trade deal.<\/li>\n<li>China has been <strong>ASEAN&#8217;s largest trade partner<\/strong> for 12 consecutive years. On the other hand, ASEAN became China&#8217;s largest trade partner in 2020.<\/li>\n<li>China has pledged to <strong>deliver 100 million doses of the Sinovac Covid-19 vaccine to ASEAN nations.<\/strong> Apart from that, China will also provide other pandemic-fighting materials and technical help to tackle the Covid-19 pandemic in ASEAN Countries.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Read Also :-<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/answeredthe-act-east-policy-has-not-brought-the-expected-gains-for-india-do-you-agree\/\">India&#8217;s Act East Policy<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<h5><strong>About ASEAN:<\/strong><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/all-you-need-to-know-about-india-asean\/\"><strong>ASEAN <\/strong><\/a>is a regional grouping that was established in 1967 with the signing of the Bangkok Declaration.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Members: <\/strong>Indonesia, Thailand, Singapore, Malaysia, The Philippines, Vietnam, Myanmar, Cambodia, Brunei, and Laos.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Headquarters: <\/strong>Jakarta, Indonesia.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/epaper.thehindu.com\/Home\/MShareArticle?OrgId=GMR8LA0DV.1&amp;imageview=0\"><strong>The Hindu<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is the news? China is hosting ASEAN foreign ministers meeting this year. This year (2021) also marks the 30th anniversary of the dialogue relations between China and the 10-member ASEAN countries. Association of Southeast Asian Nations Read Also :-India and East Asia Relations Key Focus of the ASEAN foreign ministers meeting: The meeting will&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/china-hosts-asean-foreign-ministers-meeting\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">China hosts &#8220;ASEAN foreign ministers meeting&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,164,9],"tags":[1420],"class_list":["post-111218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-international-relations-daily-factly-articles","category-public","tag-ir_3","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704783570},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111218\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}