China, Asean to explore elevating ties to comprehensive strategic partnership: Global Times

Wang Yi attends the Special Asean-China Foreign Ministers' Meeting in Chongqing on June 7, 2021. - Xinhua

BEIJING (Global Times): China and member countries of Asean have expanded and deepened their mutual interests by properly managing differences over the past 30 years, creating the most successful example of cooperation in the Asia-Pacific region, Chinese observers said after the first in-person meeting of foreign ministers between China and Asean since the pandemic began.

They said the many groundbreaking projects demonstrate the mutual desire to maintain regional peace and stability while resolutely objecting to West's interference and provocation.