Malaysia: United States and Malaysia signed Agreement on Reciprocal Trade including cybersecurity

On 26 October 2025, the United States and Malaysia signed an Agreement on Reciprocal Trade concerning cybersecurity. Malaysia endeavours to collaborate with the US to address cybersecurity challenge, including by exchanging information on threats and best practices, promoting the use of international standards, and international capacity-building activities. As part of its specific commitments made in an Annex to the Agreement, Malaysia agrees to remove a contribution requirement for US social media and cloud providers, administer laws for such providers transparently and in non-discriminatory fashion, and repeal or permanently suspend a directive requiring local redirection of all DNS traffic.