ASEAN-China Foreign Ministers’ Joint Statement on Addressing the Regional Impacts of Developments in the Middle East and Strengthening Regional Energy Cooperation

We, the Member States of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and the People’s Republic of China, gathered on the occasion of ASEAN Post-Ministerial Conference (PMC) with China in Manila, the Republic of the Philippines, on 22 July 2026;

RECALLING the commitment of ASEAN and China to advancing practical  cooperation in the areas of common interest, including the four priority areas identified in the ASEAN Outlook on the Indo-Pacific (AOIP), which contributes to the building of an open, inclusive and sustainable region that enjoys peace, security, prosperity and sustainable development, reaffirming our support for ASEAN Centrality in the evolving regional architecture and all ASEAN-led mechanisms and fora, and recalling ASEAN’s acknowledgment of China’s active efforts to promote closer ASEAN-China cooperation, including China’s vision to build a closer ASEAN-China community with a shared future, and taking note of China’s initiativeto build a peaceful, safe and secure, prosperous, beautiful and amicable home in the region,as outlined in the Joint Statement of the ASEAN-China Special Summit to Commemorate the 30^th Anniversary of ASEAN-China Dialogue Relations, the Plan of Action to Implement the ASEAN-China Comprehensive Strategic Partnership (2026–2030), and the ASEAN-China Joint Statement on Mutually Beneficial Cooperation on the ASEAN Outlook on the Indo-Pacific (AOIP);