Prime Minister Datuk Seri Ismail Sabri Yaakob hoped that the scope of cooperation among Asean countries could be planned more carefully so that Bahasa Melayu (Malay language) could be made the ‘lingua franca’ again
The US has not joined the meetings at the presidential level since Mr Biden's predecessor Donald Trump attended an Asean-US meeting in Manila in 2017.. Read more at straitstimes.com.
BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN - United States President Joe Biden will take part in a virtual summit with the Asean on Tuesday (Oct 26), the first time in four years Washington will engage at the top level with a bloc it sees as key to its strategy of pushing back against China. The US embassy in Brunei said Mr Biden will.
US President Joe Biden will take part in a virtual summit with the Asean on Tuesday, the first time in four years, as part of Washington's strategy of pushing back against China.