Malaysia’s Anwar Writes Trump Seeking Summit With Southeast Asia

Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim said he personally wrote to Donald Trump seeking to organize a meeting with Southeast Asian nations amid concerns over the US president’s proposed tariff hikes.

“A transition in the geopolitical order is underway and the global trading system is under further strain, with the recent imposition of US unilateral tariffs,” he said Monday during his opening remarks of a regional summit in Kuala Lumpur. “Protectionism is resurging as we bear witness to multilateralism breaking apart at the seams.”

Anwar Ibrahim during the ASEAN Summit in Kuala Lumpur on May 26.

Photographer: Samsul Said/Bloomberg

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