{"id":57408,"date":"2026-05-08T04:49:53","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T04:49:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=57408"},"modified":"2026-05-08T04:52:18","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T04:52:18","slug":"southeast-asian-leaders-seek-strategy-to-ease-impacts-of-iran-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=57408","title":{"rendered":"Southeast Asian leaders seek strategy to ease impacts of Iran war"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>(Reuters)   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>CEBU, Philippines, May 8  &#8211; Leaders of Southeast Asian countries holding a summit on Friday are expected to thrash out \u200ba coordinated response to the impacts of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/iran\/\">Middle East crisis<\/a>, as they aim to ease pressure from an energy shock \u200cthat has rattled their oil import-reliant economies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meeting on the Philippine island of Cebu, leaders of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations are expected to press for a harmonised strategy to ensure energy and food security in a region particularly exposed to a nearly 70-day blockade of the critical&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/china\/whats-included-talks-end-iran-war-reopen-hormuz-2026-05-07\/\">Strait of Hormuz<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In opening remarks \u200bas chair of ASEAN, Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr said ASEAN was standing together to demonstrate its capacity to \u200brespond with unity and resolve, but must remain agile.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;We must ensure regional energy security and resilience,&#8221; he \u2060said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;At a time of heightened volatility, ASEAN must strengthen coordination and reinforce preparedness, pursue practical collective measures to safeguard a stable \u200benergy supply and improve interconnectivity.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Reuters) CEBU, Philippines, May 8 &#8211; Leaders of Southeast Asian countries holding a summit on Friday are expected to thrash out \u200ba coordinated response to the impacts of the\u00a0Middle East crisis, as they aim to ease pressure from an energy shock \u200cthat has rattled their oil import-reliant economies. Meeting on the Philippine island of Cebu, leaders of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations are expected to press for a harmonised strategy to ensure energy and food security in a region particularly exposed to a nearly 70-day blockade of the critical&nbsp;Strait of Hormuz. In opening remarks \u200bas chair of ASEAN, Philippine&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":57411,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-in-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57408"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57408\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57410,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57408\/revisions\/57410"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/57411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}