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Reset in Malaysia-China relations

May 16, 2018

Malaysians are rightly relishing the tremendous victory at last week’s polls. It was a dream come true. With hard work …

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MCA’s election manifesto: too little too late

April 26, 2018

It never ceases to amaze me why a party which has done so little for so long suddenly expects voters …

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MCA: Praising China, attacking Mahathir

February 14, 2018

With little else to offer, MCA appears to have firmly hitched its wagon to the People’s Republic of China in …

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The New Silk Road – Part four: Dancing With Dragons?

June 5, 2017

Dr M Bakri Musa, the California-based commentator, author, blogger and surgeon, once remarked that dragons don’t look for dancing partners …

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The New Silk Road – Part Three: Dragons Without, Demons Within

May 30, 2017

PART THREE: DEMONS WITHIN, DRAGONS WITHOUT  We have tended to look at China with starry-eyed fascination, mesmerized by the immense …

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The New Silk Road – Part Two: Is There a Plan For Malaysia?

May 30, 2017

PART TWO: IS THERE A PLAN FOR MALAYSIA? The leaked China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) Long Term Plan invariably invites questions …

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The New Silk Road: Pathway To Prosperity Or Slippery Slope To Subjugation? [Part One: The CPEC Revelations]

May 28, 2017

  PART ONE: THE CPEC REVELATIONS China has just concluded a very successful international conference on President Xi Jiping’s signature …

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The MCA’s dangerous dance with the CCP

May 14, 2017

Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak is currently in China to attend the ‘New Silk Road Summit’ hosted by President Xi …

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China’s growing domestic involvement

March 4, 2017

Even the most casual observer of our nation’s politics will not fail to notice the growing influence of China in …

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Why China is different

February 3, 2017

China is unlike any other nation we are engaged with. We must not be so mesmerized by the opportunities that we overlook the dangers, so narrowly focused on tantalizing projects and lucrative deals that we miss the wood for the trees, so intent on private agendas and personal gain that we lose sight of national interests.

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We will “be forever a sovereign democratic and independent state founded upon the principles of liberty and justice and ever seeking the welfare and happiness of its people and the maintenance of a just peace among all nations.” – Tunku Abdul Rahman’s Proclamation of Independence speech, August 31st 1957

“When the people fear the government there is tyranny, when the government fears the people there is liberty” ~ John Basil Barnhill

The Short Shrift

Is it about drink-driving or pushing a religious agenda?

The way some of our politicians are getting worked up about the whole drink-driving issue makes me wonder whether other agendas are driving the issue. Let’s get one thing straight: drink-driving (or driving while intoxicated) is just plain wrong. It endangers innocent lives and must never be tolerated. Many countries have very strict drink-driving laws […]

Crooks, the whole lot of them

The slew of accusations now being traded between former leaders about corruption, nepotism and malfeasance in office has, no doubt, confirmed what most Malaysians have long suspected: that their leaders are all corrupt and untrustworthy. They come around waving the flag and pretending to be great patriots but they are just opportunists out to enrich […]

Pigs in the house?

There was an interesting article in the media last September about the state of Malacca being invaded by pigs from across the Strait. Apparently, they were abandoning their habitat for greener pastures. Barely a month later, there was another newspaper headline that read “Question on pigs sparks off heated exchange at Melaka state assembly.” It […]

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