{"id":1628,"date":"2025-07-09T06:35:35","date_gmt":"2025-07-09T06:35:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/myanmarmuslim.news\/en\/?p=1628"},"modified":"2025-07-09T06:35:37","modified_gmt":"2025-07-09T06:35:37","slug":"us-secretary-of-state-heading-kl-with-tariffs-high-on-agenda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/myanmarmuslim.news\/en\/2025\/07\/09\/us-secretary-of-state-heading-kl-with-tariffs-high-on-agenda\/","title":{"rendered":"US Secretary of State heading KL, with tariffs high on agenda"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>WASHINGTON, July 9 \u2014 US Secretary of State Marco Rubio departed for Malaysia yesterday for meetings with Asean allies, a trip that has been overshadowed by fears of a trade war.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The brief trip to Kuala Lumpur is intended to allow Rubio, who is also President Donald Trump&#8217;s national security advisor, to focus on US policy in Asia after months of Washington concentrating on conflicts in Ukraine and the Middle East.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;In his first trip to Asia as Secretary of State, Secretary Rubio is focused on reaffirming the United States&#8217; commitment to advancing a free, open, and secure Indo-Pacific region,&#8221; spokeswoman Tammy Bruce said in a statement, using Washington&#8217;s traditional wording on curbing China&#8217;s growing influence in the region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A senior State Department official told reporters that prioritizing and reaffirming Washington&#8217;s commitment to East Asia and Southeast Asia &#8220;is in America&#8217;s interest.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;I think there&#8217;s been a lot of outreach, a lot of engagements, and I wouldn&#8217;t judge the level of interest and priority based solely on how many physical trips there have been,&#8221; the official said on condition of anonymity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON, July 9 \u2014 US Secretary of State Marco Rubio departed for Malaysia yesterday for meetings with Asean allies, a trip that has been overshadowed by fears of a trade war. The brief trip to Kuala Lumpur is intended to allow Rubio, who is also President Donald Trump&#8217;s national security advisor, to focus on US [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1629,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/myanmarmuslim.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/myanmarmuslim.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/myanmarmuslim.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myanmarmuslim.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myanmarmuslim.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1628"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/myanmarmuslim.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1628\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1630,"href":"https:\/\/myanmarmuslim.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1628\/revisions\/1630"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myanmarmuslim.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/myanmarmuslim.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myanmarmuslim.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myanmarmuslim.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}