<h1>Major Asian power vows to defend multilateral free trade and green cooperation amid Western tariff cuts and strategic divergence</h1> At a regional economic summit, a major Asian power pledged to defend multilateral free trade and oppose supply-chain decoupling while promoting green-industry cooperation, after a separate bilateral meeting with a leading Western economy that agreed to tariff reductions and limited export concessions. The Western leader's absence from the summit and divergent US strategy toward economic competition raise risks to consensus-based outcomes; host efforts to secure a joint communique could be undermined by competing national trade policies. Legal issues include potential shifts in trade remedies, export-control regimes, state aid and procurement rules, and weakened soft-law commitments affecting predictability for cross-border investment and supply chains.