Kuala Lumpur, May 26 -- Vietnamese Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh joined leaders of ASEAN member countries and Timor-Leste in a closed-door session to discuss international and regional issues on May 26 as part of the 46th ASEAN Summit and Related Summits in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. At the meeting, ASEAN leaders acknowledged the region's strategic importance as a crossroads of geopolitical and geo-economic interests, which is also facing the mounting pressures from strategic competition among major powers, protectionism, supply chain disruptions, and the widespread impacts of climate change, natural disasters, pandemics, and other non-traditional security threats. Meanwhile, the rise of emerging technologies is fundamentally reshaping deve...