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But conspicuously absent from Chinh’s remarks was a commitment to full membership – a move that would likely have drawn Vietnam closer to Beijing and Moscow at the potential cost of its relationship with Washington.
Voters in Japan headed to the polls on Sunday for parliamentary elections that will determine the next prime minister and which are expected to lead to a power-sharing agreement that may turn the focus to domestic issues.
Any attempt to sway nations away from Brics is likely to backfire, according to Sarang Shidore, director of the Global South programme at the Quincy Institute, a Washington-based think tank.
By doing so, North Korea has helped Moscow violate the sovereignty of another country and UN sanctions, analysts told This Week in Asia.
New Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba faces major obstacles in pushing his ambitious defence agenda as polling suggests his party will lose ground in Sunday’s general election, forcing it to lean more heavily on its pacifist coalition partner.
Chinese naval training ship Qi Jiguang and amphibious dock landing ship Jinggangshan arrived in Chittagong on October 12 for what China’s defence ministry called a three-day goodwill visit.
The challenge for Canada to underscore its commitment is to deliver on initiatives that are priorities for regional countries, such as maritime security and infrastructure development, observers say.
Alexander Vuving, a professor at the Asia-Pacific Centre for Security Studies in Hawaii, said the development “indicates an unprecedented level of Sino-Russian solidarity in opposition to Asean unity”.