Kuala Lumpur gatherings should work to reinforce solidarity against tariff threats

With the United States' disruption of global industry and supply chains becoming the new normal, and the unpredictability of the policies of the world's largest economy creating uncertainties, the role of regional economic cooperation and integration as the ballast and driver for Asia's economic development has become all the more important.

In this sense, the importance of the series of meetings involving the foreign ministers of China and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations and other countries in the coming two days in Kuala Lumpur cannot be overestimated, especially with the US administration continuing to wage its tariff war.

The China-ASEAN Foreign Ministers' Meeting, the ASEAN Plus Three Foreign Ministers' Meeting, the East Asia Summit Foreign Ministers' Meeting and the ASEAN Regional Forum Foreign Ministers' Meeting are being held in the Malaysian capital from Thursday to Friday.