Pichai said the trade talks with the US are important and need to move forward professionally, without regard for any political changes in Thailand, believing that Thailand has clear principles, guidelines and procedures in place.
According to a press release from the Royal Government Spokesperson Unit on June 7, the negotiations took place from June 4 - 6 in Washington, D.C., during which both sides exchanged views and discussed the draft agreement with great mutual understanding.
A top US solar trade group, the Solar Energy Industries Association, said new tariffs would actually harm domestic producers by increasing costs for panel buyers.
He said the negotiations will be held virtually, led by Deputy Secretary-General (trade) MITI, Mastura Ahmad Mustafa as Malaysia’s chief negotiator, alongside the Assistant US Trade Representative for Southeast Asia and the Pacific, Sarah Ellerman.
The co-chairs highlighted the strong and durable partnership with ASEAN over the past 48 years. They discussed pressing geopolitical issues, including the importance of facilitating a free and open Indo-Pacific. O’Neill further expressed the need to uphold freedom of navigation and overflight in the East Sea.
Airplanes from Los Angeles and San Francisco that are headed for Hong Kong (China) will then go on to the two new destinations – Thailand’s Bangkok and Vietnam’s Ho Chi Minh City.
The most immediate impact of Trump’s tariffs will be inflation, both in the US and worldwide. As import costs rise, businesses will pass these costs onto consumers, driving up prices, said Professor Phar Kim Beng of ASEAN Studies at the International Islamic University of Malaysia (IIUM).
US Secretary of Defence Pete Hegseth reaffirmed Washington’s strong commitment to its alliance with the Philippines during his official visit to the Southeast Asian country on March 28.
The Philippine Department of Agriculture said the rapid spread of bird flu in a short period since the first laboratory detection necessitates a wider coverage of trade restrictions. It had previously banned poultry imports from Illinois, Minnesota, Ohio, Wisconsin, South Dakota, Maryland, and Missouri.
A US military-contracted plane crashed in Maguindanao del Sur province, southern the Philippines, on February 6, killing all four people on board, the US Indo-Pacific Command (INDOPACOM) confirmed.
Vietnam recorded a 24% year-on-year increase in exports to the US in the second quarter, ranking second in the ASEAN region after the Philippines, which saw a 35% rise, according to Nikkei Asia trade data published on its site on October 31.
The Philippines and the US have recently organised the 3rd Maritime Dialogue in Manila, during which they reaffirmed their shared commitment to upholding the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), as well as underlined the importance of the ruling by the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague (the Netherlands) in 2016 on the East Sea.
An event was held to mark ASEAN Day 2024 by the Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs under the US Department of State (DOS) and the ASEAN Committee in Washington at the US-ASEAN Centre in Washington D.C on August 8.
Dr. Andrew Wells-Dang, a senior expert of Southeast Asia at the US Institute of Peace (USIP), said most US politicians have shared the view that the war in Vietnam was a mistake.
The ASEAN Family Day was recently held in New York with the participation of the staff members of the permanent missions of 10 ASEAN member states and Timor Leste, an observer at the bloc, to the United Nations and their families.
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors has freshly voted unanimously to formally declare Vietnamese an official city language that requires the authorities’ provision of translation services.
Singapore and the US have inked an agreement to further cooperate on defence innovation, such as leveraging artificial intelligence (AI) and autonomous systems to solve their militaries’ operational challenges.
People-to-people diplomacy has become a bridge to heal the wounds of war, contributing to building trust, and promoting the development of Vietnam-US relations to new heights, said experts.
The US chip manufacture Nvidia is planning to build a 200 million USD artificial intelligence (AI) centre in Indonesia as part of its push into Southeast Asia.
The alliance between the Philippines and the US is very solid and many US businesses want to invest in the Southeast Asian country, US Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo said on March 11 during her two-day official visit to the Philippines.
