Loke to Sign Two China MOUs in Beijing Before Cabinet Exit — SkimNews
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- Anthony Loke will attend the 12th APEC Transport Ministers' Meeting in Beijing on Sept 21-22 and sign a comprehensive transport cooperation MOU with China covering land, rail, maritime, aviation, and logistics sectors.
- The second MOU is an aviation safety agreement between CAAM and CAAC that will cover airworthiness, organisation certification, personnel licensing, operational oversight, and mutual recognition of compliance findings and certificates.
- After Beijing, Loke will travel to Shanghai to join Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim's delegation before returning to Malaysia to attend to matters concerning his formal resignation as Transport Minister.
- The Transport Ministry confirmed in a Sept 21 statement that all operations and responsibilities under its purview will continue to be executed professionally and without disruption during Loke's resignation process.
Why it matters: Two binding bilateral MOUs — covering rail, maritime, aviation, logistics, and aviation safety certification — get signed the same week Loke exits Cabinet, with the Transport Ministry explicitly assuring that operations continue uninterrupted during the transition. The itinerary also folds Loke into PM Anwar's Shanghai delegation, tying Malaysia's transport diplomacy directly to the prime minister's wider China engagement at a moment of ministerial turnover.
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