Malaysia as Asean chair to proactively engage, urge US, China to ease tensions


KUALA LUMPUR: As the Asean chair next year, Malaysia will lead the regional grouping in engaging more proactively with the US and China to reduce their growing tensions.

"As long as we (Asean) take this centrality role to continue to engage with both, I think it should be alright to contain (the tensions),” said Malaysia’s Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim, in an interview with India Today Global during his three-day official visit to India.

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