{"id":57277,"date":"2025-07-12T18:17:12","date_gmt":"2025-07-12T13:47:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/?p=57277"},"modified":"2025-07-12T18:17:12","modified_gmt":"2025-07-12T13:47:12","slug":"rubio-to-make-1st-visit-to-indo-pacific-region-forasean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/57277\/rubio-to-make-1st-visit-to-indo-pacific-region-forasean\/","title":{"rendered":"Rubio to make \u06f1st visit to Indo-Pacific region forASEAN"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Rubio will travel July 8-12 and will take part in meetings in Kuala Lumpur with the 10-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations, whose ministers are gathering there, the State Department said, according to US News.<\/p>\n<p>The trip is part of a renewed US focus on the Indo-Pacific and represents an effort by the Trump administration to look beyond the conflicts in the Middle East and Europe that have so far consumed much of its attention.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, Rubio hosted counterparts from Australia, India and Japan and announced a joint initiative to ensure supply of critical minerals, a vital sector for high-tech applications dominated by Washington&#8217;s main strategic rival China.<\/p>\n<p>Trump also announced he reached a trade agreement with important Southeast Asian partner and ASEAN member Vietnam and could reach one with India, but cast doubt on a possible deal with Japan, Washington&#8217;s main Indo-Pacific ally and a major importer and investor in the United States.<\/p>\n<p>Rubio has yet to visit Japan, or neighboring South Korea, the other major US ally in Northeast Asia, since taking office in January, even though Washington sees the Indo-Pacific as its main strategic priority given the perceived threat posed by China.<\/p>\n<p>MA\/PR<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rubio will travel July 8-12 and will take part in meetings in Kuala Lumpur with the 10-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations, whose ministers are gathering there, the State Department said, according to US News. The trip is part of a renewed US focus on the Indo-Pacific and represents an effort by the Trump administration [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[7103,7100],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-accidents-en","category-international-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57277\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}