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Category Archives: China
Fraying ethnic relations affecting foreign policy consensus
A series of recent controversial foreign policy statements by Prime Minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad has exposed the increasingly deep divisions …
Comic books, politics and propaganda
What is it with us Malaysians? We seem to careen from one controversy to another in quick succession. Before we …
Rethinking ECRL
In the wake of explosive testimony from Amhari Efendi Nazaruddin,a key aide to former prime minister Najib Tun Razak, detailing …
ECRL: No cause for celebration
After months of conflicting signals and intense behind-the-scenes negotiations, the Pakatan Harapan government finally announced that it had reached agreement …
BRI: Putting Malaysia’s interest first
As the Pakatan Harapan government draws closer to making a final determination on the East Coast Rail Link (ECRL), a …
ECRL: time to cut our losses and move on
The East Coast Railway Link (ECRL), one of Najib’s toxic legacies, is an issue that just won’t seem to …
Part 9: China & Malaysia – The Challenges Ahead
China’s dark side Of course, China is far from perfect. Indeed, there is a dark and sinister side to the …
Part 7: Rethinking race
In many ways, we are several different people groups living together in the same space, coming together when we must …
Part 6: Divided we stand
Deng Xiaoping once remarked to a visiting Malaysian delegation that if China could find a way to unleash the natural …
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