Countries must be allowed to decide in their own interests and not be swayed by rivalries between major powers, he said, calling on ASEAN to engage “new partners” such as China, India, Pakistan, Russia and the European Union. “The plan to invite China to the second ASEAN-GCC summit was conceived before the US elections, in which Donald Trump won a landslide victory,” noted a December 2024 article by ThinkChina, a Singapore-based online magazine focused on China. Anwar said at the May 21 briefing that the GCC nations have good ties with both the US and China, and are “really focusing on ASEAN”.
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