Chinese FM attends ASEAN Regional Forum Foreign Ministers' Meeting

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi on Friday attended the 32nd ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF) Foreign Ministers' Meeting in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

Asia-Pacific's development benefited from the region's peaceful and stable environment, and should be cherished, said Wang, also a member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China Central Committee.

Noting the ARF, as an important multilateral security platform in the region, bears significant responsibilities for maintaining regional peace and stability, Wang said China welcomes the proposal to reinforce the role of the ARF and enhance confidence-building measures.

Wang introduced China's proposition to ensure the stable development of the Asia-Pacific region and enable the ARF to continue to play its due role: a vision of common, comprehensive, cooperative and sustainable security, a balanced, effective and sustainable security architecture, an Asian security model featuring intertwined security, seeking common ground while reserving differences and dialogue and consultation, so as to find a new path of security featuring dialogue rather than confrontation, partnership rather than alliance, and win-win rather than zero-sum.

Creating division and opposition with a zero-sum game mentality runs counter to the goal of maintaining security, Wang said, urging efforts to address both the symptoms and root causes of conflicts and wars.

Saying Asia calls for the Eastern wisdom of valuing harmony and coexistence, Wang said wisdom should be drawn from the Bandung Spirit and legitimate security concerns of all parties should be accommodated.

China is willing to work with regional countries to bridge and resolve differences through dialogue and consultation, and inject more vitality into confidence-building measures and preventive diplomacy in all fields of the ARF.

Chinese FM attends ASEAN Regional Forum Foreign Ministers' Meeting

Chinese FM attends ASEAN Regional Forum Foreign Ministers' Meeting

Protests against federal immigration enforcement are spreading across the United States, with the latest demonstration unfolding directly in front of the White House.

Early Saturday, more than a hundred demonstrators gathered there, demanding changes to the Trump administration's immigration policies and accountability for recent shootings involving federal agents.

Immigrant rights and civil rights groups said this weekend's rallies mark a coordinated national response. Demonstrations are planned or already underway in major cities including Philadelphia, as well as across states such as North Carolina, Florida, Texas, and Washington, D.C., where organizers are calling for the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to be removed from local communities.

The nationwide protests follow a deadly week in which three people were shot by federal agents in two days.

In Minneapolis, Minnesota, a 37-year-old woman, Renee Good, was killed during an enforcement operation by the ICE. A day later in Portland, Oregon, a man and a woman were wounded during a separate federal operation.

In the aftermath, Minnesota state officials accused the Trump administration of blocking their investigation by denying access to key evidence and prematurely drawing conclusions before a full review could be completed.

On Friday, Donald Trump defended the Department of Homeland Security's actions, sharply criticizing Minnesota leaders and calling them corrupt.

Local leaders have pushed back. During a Saturday news conference, the mayor of Minneapolis described ICE agents' actions as reckless.

Officials in both Minneapolis and Portland continue urging demonstrators to remain peaceful as protests intensify nationwide.

According to a 50501 Movement statement issued Friday, at least 32 people died in ICE custody in 2025.

Nationwide protests erupt in US after ICE shootings