Kuala Lampur, May 15 -- Malaysia will host the inaugural Asean-GCC-China Summit on May 26-27 2025-an event whose significance may well echo that of the 1955 Bandung Conference. Come September 2025, Malaysia will also host the Asia Zero Emissions Community (AZEC).

But to achieve that level of impact, this summit must do more than produce joint declarations or glossy memorandums. It must redefine how the global economy is stabilised in an age of fragmentation and coercion.

It must demonstrate that a new trade order, anchored in interregional pluralism, can rise from the East and South-not to replace the West, but to rebalance what has become dangerously unhinged.

The stakes are high. Geopolitical fault lines have hardened, protectionism ...