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Malaysia's Anwar calls for dialogue over coercion at ASEAN's East Asia summit
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....alaysia's Anwar calls for dialogue over coercion at ASEAN's East Asia summit<BR>PTI News<BR>Dated:- 27-10-2025<BR>PTI<BR>Kuala Lumpur, Oct 27 (AP) Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim on Monday urged Asia-Pacific leaders to choose dialogue over coercion and cooperation over confrontation, as he opened the East Asia summit at a time of sharpening rivalry between the United States and China. The....
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.... East Asia summit is a regional forum between the Association of Southeast Asian Nations and its key regional partners — Australia, China, India, Japan, New Zealand, South Korea, Russia and the United States — to discuss political, security and economic challenges. “Today we must renew our shared purpose, reassert our objectives, promote principles of forward-looking engagement,” Anwar s....
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....aid in his opening remarks. “We continue to advocate for dialogue over coercion...and cooperation over confrontation. We affirm our stand on global peace and security, for multilateralism and international law.” The summit convened after US President Donald Trump left Malaysia earlier Monday for Japan, following his participation in ASEAN's weekend summit meetings. On Sunday, Trump witnessed....
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.... the signing of several economic agreements with Malaysia, Thailand, and Cambodia — part of Washington's push to strengthen trade ties and secure access to critical minerals as it seeks to reduce reliance on China. Trump also attended a ceremony marking a formal expansion of the Cambodia–Thailand ceasefire that Washington helped broker earlier this year. Analysts say tensions in the South ....
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....China Sea, the resilience of regional supply chains and ASEAN's response to internal crises, particularly Myanmar's prolonged conflict, would dominate talks in the East Asia summit. The US delegation is expected to emphasise freedom of navigation, economic security and a transactional approach to alliances and trade, presenting Washington as a reliable partner for Indo-Pacific stability, said Il....
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....ango Karuppannan, former Malaysian ambassador and senior adjunct fellow at Singapore's S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies. By contrast, China, represented by Premier Li Qiang, will likely underscore sovereignty, noninterference and the virtues of connectivity through projects such as the Belt and Road initiative and other regional frameworks, he said. Their "rivalry sets the backdro....
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....p against which every other issue is discussed — from security to trade” but ASEAN is expected to maintain its neutrality, keeping the focus on regional cooperation, not on taking sides, Ilango said. “The 20th East Asia summit will be remembered for the signing of the peace deal and US trade recalibration with Southeast Asia,” he added. Anwar, in his speech, again commended Trump's pla....
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....n to end the Gaza conflict, but said more must be done to ensure a just and lasting political solution for the Palestinian people. He voiced concern over the recent surge of ballistic missile launches by North Korea and called for engagement. “Once we call for engagement in all areas from Gaza to Ukraine to Myanmar, we should not preclude engagement with (North Korea),” he said. On Myanm....
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....ar, he said ASEAN is sticking to its 2021 Five-Point Consensus on peace and dialogue to resolve the civil war triggered by Myanmar's 2021 military takeover. He didn't touch on Myanmar's plan for a general election, but said fighting has subsided and that engagement should continue. Anwar also said territorial tensions in the South China Sea should be resolved within ASEAN and its regional partne....
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....rs, with a "Code of Conduct" being negotiated to govern behaviour in the disputed global sea route. He warned that outside pressure could escalate tensions and urged all parties to respect international law. Earlier, ASEAN members and five partners — China, Japan, South Korea, Australia, and New Zealand — held a leaders' summit of the Regional Economic Comprehensive Partnership, the first si....
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....nce they signed a free trade pact in 2020. The agreement, which covers roughly one-third of global GDP, aims to promote regional economic integration and strengthen supply chain resilience. In a joint statement, the RCEP leaders said their partnership could bolster the region's economic resilience in the face of current global uncertainties. They reaffirmed their commitment to multilateralism an....
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....d vowed to enhance the implementation of the RCEP agreement and domestic reforms. The RCEP is "a practical hedge against US tariff shocks,” said Doris Liew, an economist specialising in Southeast Asian development. Even though their provisions are loose and not seen as strong as some other regional trade blocs, she said their partnership could help them diversify their trade baskets and reduce....
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.... exposure to unilateral US actions. (AP) SKS SKS<BR> News - Press release - PIB....