This report does not constitute a rating action. Chart 1 There was one default among corporate issuers rated by S&P Global Ratings in Asia-Pacific in 2025, maintaining the region's recent trend of exceptionally low defaults, with zero in 2024 and two in 2023. The lone default equated to a speculative-grade default rate of 0.7% in Asia-Pacific (see chart 1), compared with 3.1% globally, 3.7% in the U.S., and 4% in Europe. Last year's defaulter was Chinese real estate company China Vanke Co., which defaulted in December 2025 after bondholders agreed to extend a grace period. S&P Global Ratings viewed the extension as a distressed debt restructuring tantamount to a default (see"China Vanke Downgraded To'SD'On Completed Distressed