{"id":9522,"date":"2025-10-27T03:07:46","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T03:07:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/in-diplomatic-debut-takaichi-chooses-continuity-at-asean-summit\/"},"modified":"2025-10-27T03:07:46","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T03:07:46","slug":"in-diplomatic-debut-takaichi-chooses-continuity-at-asean-summit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/in-diplomatic-debut-takaichi-chooses-continuity-at-asean-summit\/","title":{"rendered":"In diplomatic debut, Takaichi chooses continuity at ASEAN summit"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"dateline\">TOKYO\/KUALA LUMPUR &ndash; <\/span><\/p>\n<p>Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi made her in-person diplomatic debut Sunday, joining a summit of Southeast Asian nations in Kuala Lumpur, where she looked to put fears of a more hawkish approach to China on the backburner and embrace policy continuity toward the region.<\/p>\n<p>The new Japanese leader, who only took office last Tuesday, lauded progress made between Tokyo and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations but said more could be done to promote &ldquo;peace and stability&rdquo; in the region &mdash; words widely seen as aimed at China, which is embroiled in disputes over parts of the South China Sea with several ASEAN member states.<\/p>\n<p>Takaichi also pledged to beef up cooperation with ASEAN nations under Japan&rsquo;s &ldquo;Free and Open Indo-Pacific&rdquo; (FOIP) strategy.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><sub>In diplomatic debut, Takaichi chooses continuity at ASEAN summit<\/sub><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TOKYO\/KUALA LUMPUR &ndash; Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi made her in-person diplomatic debut Sunday, joining a summit of Southeast Asian nations in Kuala Lumpur, where she looked to put fears of a more hawkish approach to China on the backburner and embrace policy continuity toward the region. The new Japanese leader, who only took office last&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/in-diplomatic-debut-takaichi-chooses-continuity-at-asean-summit\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;In diplomatic debut, Takaichi chooses continuity at ASEAN summit&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9523,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9522\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}