Bloomberg President Joe Biden’s top national security aide said the US will brief Taiwanese officials on the president’s upcoming meeting with China’s Xi Jinping and expressed confidence that Taipei would feel secure about its support from the US. “I’m confident that they will feel very secure and comfortable in the United States, his position when it comes to our support ...

  Bloomberg South Korea’s military said the country has maintained its position of not sending lethal arms to Ukraine, after the Wall Street Journal reported Seoul struck a secret deal with the US that would supply Kyiv with artillery. The Defense Ministry said in a text message sent to reporters Friday negotiations are underway between a South Korean company and ...

  Bloomberg Indonesian President Joko Widodo has proposed to leaders of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations that representatives of the Myanmar military be barred from the bloc’s functions beyond big ticket summits. Leaders belonging to the 10 nation grouping debated the issue “at length” he said, in the strongest sign yet that some Asean members are growing frustrated by ...