{"id":75032,"date":"2025-11-05T09:50:34","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T00:50:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/nov\/05\/malaysia-defends-trump-us-trade-deal"},"modified":"2025-11-05T09:50:34","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T00:50:34","slug":"malaysia-defends-trump-trade-deal-after-critics-warn-it-will-compromise-countrys-sovereignty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=75032","title":{"rendered":"Malaysia defends Trump trade deal after critics warn it will compromise country\u2019s sovereignty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former Malaysian prime minister Mahathir Mohamad said the deal amounted to \u2018handing over\u2019 the country\u2019s independence<\/p>\n<p>Malaysia\u2019s government has been forced to defend its new trade deal with the US after opposition politicians, analysts and civil society groups warned that the deal was \u201cone-sided\u201d and could compromise the country\u2019s sovereignty.<\/p>\n<p>Investment, trade and industry minister Tengku Zafrul Aziz has called the trade deal \u201cthe best possible outcome for Malaysia.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/nov\/05\/malaysia-defends-trump-us-trade-deal\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Malaysian prime minister Mahathir Mohamad said the deal amounted to \u2018handing over\u2019 the country\u2019s independenceMalaysia\u2019s government has been forced to defend its new trade deal with the US after opposition politicians, analysts and civil society &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5051,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1146,41,415,1147,70,3280,554,3279,45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anwar-ibrahim","category-asia-pacific","category-donald-trump","category-mahathir-mohamad","category-malaysia","category-tariffs","category-trump-administration","category-trump-tariffs","category-us-foreign-policy"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5051"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=75032"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75032\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75033,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75032\/revisions\/75033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}