Malaysia will speak up against Israeli aggression without fear, says Anwar

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Malaysia will express its views without fear, be it on the Israeli aggression and colonisation of Gaza or their provocation towards Iran, says Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim.  The Prime Minister said Malaysia stood firm and was prepared to face whatever issues were raised.  Read more at https://tinyurl.com/3ad9w2ex   WATCH MORE: https://thestartv.com/c/news SUBSCRIBE: https://cutt.ly/TheStar LIKE: https://fb.com/TheStarOnline

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00:00now we are having this to deal with this issue of the trump tariffs

00:08as a country as a region we are for rules-based multilateral arrangements

00:19we do not share this

00:21or or do not endorse or support or condone any unilateral action it does not matter from any

00:31country we promote peace and we stand firm despite the fact they were relatively small country we do

00:39not fear to express our views be it on the israeli aggression and colonization of gaza

00:50or provocation to iran we stand firm and we are prepared to face whatever issues raised

00:59but at the same time we observe the principle of or adopt the principle and policy of centrality

01:07nobody can dictate that we should be too friendly to japan or china or united states we are trading

01:14country when open trading country and the policy must be to protect the interest of this nation and our

01:22people you know united states is still cumulatively and present the greatest investor trading partner

01:32with malaysia you have ene here semiconductor you know that 60 percent of our export is to the united states

01:43which means our relations with united states notwithstanding our differences in many of the foreign

01:50policy issues or this unilateral decision on tariffs our relationship with united states must remain strong

01:59which means we must continue the engagement i just received the note from minister zafro this morning

02:10we're talking about the series of meetings with the commerce secretary with the u.s state representative

02:20progressing very well in terms of negotiations on tariff but at the same time we also represent

02:26asian interest and prime minister ishiwa for example when he called he agreed that the commerce secretary

02:34or minister of japan should then coordinate so that we take an asian position we work with japan

02:41korea and china to engage with united states why to prove to ensure that trading investments remain paramount

02:53and must be based on a multi-lateral

03:04so there is some other issues of course we take a very strong position against the

03:12provocative actions by north korea

03:15which is affecting of course the security of the region

03:19of south korea of japan and we take a position very clearly and

03:30we in asian have that consensus because we also have to deal and grapple with the issue with the

03:36south china sea but our relationship with china is very close

03:40not many countries can record that um last month we had um or a month earlier we had uh

03:52president jiping a non-official visit here and the following month we had premier li chiang

03:58which could not have happened if our relations with china is not extremely close

04:06why because first the principle of centrality secondly because we are trading nation we need all the

04:17investments support training transfer technology that china can offer as the japanese have offered for

04:25decades in the past

04:36tomorrow

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