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Maritime issues between the Philippines and China remain a "serious concern", a Philippine official said on Friday, as the countries pledged to use diplomacy to resolve differences peacefully during high-level talks.

Senior Chinese and Filipino diplomats were meeting in Manila on Thursday to review their relations amid thorny issues, including Beijing's alarm over a Philippine decision to allow the US military to expand its presence to a northern region facing the Taiwan Strait and escalating spats in the disputed South China…

Japan’s Defense Ministry said three objects spotted in its airspace between 2019 and 2021 were probably Chinese surveillance balloons, giving its most definitive assessment for the previously unidentified items.

External Affairs Minister (EAM) S Jaishankar met the outgoing Chinese envoy to India, Sun Weidong on Wednesday and emphasized that peace and tranquillity in the border areas are essential to maintaining bilateral ties. Read on for details:

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EAM Jaishankar’s comments comes after the remarks by Chinese Ambassador to India Sun Weidong claiming that the situation along the LAC was moving towards being “normalised”.

In speech on PRC’s 73rd founding day, Ambassador Sun Weidong calls for closer cooperation, New Delhi to respect China’s “core interests” on Taiwan and Tibet

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