{"id":9628,"date":"2013-08-26T07:18:14","date_gmt":"2013-08-26T07:18:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=9628"},"modified":"2013-08-26T07:18:14","modified_gmt":"2013-08-26T07:18:14","slug":"us-malaysia-looking-to-expand-defence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=9628","title":{"rendered":"US, Malaysia looking to expand defence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/usmalaysia.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-9629\" alt=\"usmalaysia\" src=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/usmalaysia.jpg\" width=\"251\" height=\"201\" \/><\/a>Malaysia and Washington are looking to expand its defence collaboration in various areas including regional and international security, trading, military technologies and exchanging information, said Home Minister Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Tun Hussein.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The two countries also reaffirmed their commitment to continue conducting training for humanitarian efforts, disaster relief and peacekeeping, and counter trans-national threats, piracy as well as terrorism, he said after meeting US Defence Secretary Chuck Hagel here yesterday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cThe relationship between the two countries is strong, but with the visit, we believe that it has added value.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cWith the strategic and unfolding landscape, it is important for us to have friends that appreciate our concern, with the ability to cooperate and share with us at many levels,\u201d he told a joint press conference at the \u201cUS\u2013South East Asia Ties\u201d programme organised by the Malaysian Institute of Defence and Security (Midas), here yesterday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Hagel said the United States would also conduct more than 75 activities this year with the armed forces, including military exchanges and visits, designed to boost capabilities and help the armed forces become more professional and flexible.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cMalaysia has always been a good friend and has played an impressive role in contributing towards regional and global security,\u201d he said. &#8211; thestar.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Malaysia and Washington are looking to expand its defence collaboration in various areas including regional and international security, trading, military technologies and exchanging information, said Home Minister Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Tun Hussein. The two countries also reaffirmed their commitment to continue conducting training for humanitarian efforts, disaster relief and peacekeeping, and counter trans-national threats, piracy &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=9628\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;US, Malaysia looking to expand defence&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9629,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,123],"tags":[5494,3269,5492,5493,727],"class_list":["post-9628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-world","tag-chuck-hagel","tag-defence","tag-malaysia","tag-us-defence-secretary","tag-washington"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/usmalaysia.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9628"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9628\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9631,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9628\/revisions\/9631"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}