Big brother in Beijing
I just couldn’t believe I was reading it right: Foreign Minister Hishammuddin Hussein calling China “big brother” in a televised …
Tag Archives: China
The Coronavirus pandemic & the beginning of the new Chinese century
The coronavirus pandemic, the first major global pandemic of modern times, has brought the world to a standstill. Some half …
Government must act decisively to contain the coronavirus
Kudos to President Xi Jinping for acting decisively to counter the spread of the increasingly deadly coronavirus by suspending all …
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 …
Kuala Lumpur Islamic Summit: old ideas & new realities
The speeches and forums are over. The visitors have left. Malaysians, if they even bothered to follow the grandly named …
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 …
Hypocrisy & hyperbole at the UN
Dozens of world leaders descended on New York last week for the 74th session of the UN General Assembly (UNGA), …
Rethinking ECRL
In the wake of explosive testimony from Amhari Efendi Nazaruddin,a key aide to former prime minister Najib Tun Razak, detailing …
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 …
The trouble with having a PM-in-waiting
As Anwar Ibrahim settles into his role as prime minister-in-waiting, the question of what’s a PM-in-waiting supposed to do while …
