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Malaysia has shown pragmatism in its approach to China and is uneasy with the US framing of its rivalry as a moral choice between good and evil.
Malaysia has shown pragmatism in its approach to China and is uneasy with the US framing of its rivalry as a moral choice between good and evil.
China should exercise greater candidness and become a more open society, while America needs to confront its racial and ideological prejudices if they are to avoid the Thucydides Trap.
China should exercise greater candidness and become a more open society, while America needs to confront its racial and ideological prejudices if they are to avoid the Thucydides Trap.
China’s Confucian heritage means it can tolerate multiple belief systems ‘under heaven’, but the US’ insistence on liberal democracy has echoes of Christian exclusivism.
China’s Confucian heritage means it can tolerate multiple belief systems ‘under heaven’, but the US’ insistence on liberal democracy has echoes of Christian exclusivism.
China’s flexing of its academic muscles is to be welcomed, if its cooperation with others is fair and open. For its own sake, too, China must return to the roots of its tradition of pluralistic education, and free up space for critical learning.
China’s flexing of its academic muscles is to be welcomed, if its cooperation with others is fair and open. For its own sake, too, China must return to the roots of its tradition of pluralistic education, and free up space for critical learning.
Peter T.C. Chang writes that, 48 years after his book diagnosing the problems ethnic Malays faced, Mahathir Mohamad is once again leading a country where Malays are still mostly poor, despite a decades-old policy that has favoured them and angered other groups. Addressing both problems will be the great challenge of his term in office.
Peter T.C. Chang writes that, 48 years after his book diagnosing the problems ethnic Malays faced, Mahathir Mohamad is once again leading a country where Malays are still mostly poor, despite a decades-old policy that has favoured them and angered other groups. Addressing both problems will be the great challenge of his term in office.
At a time when China is emerging as a global power and extending its influence far and wide, aspersions cast on the loyalty of ethnic Chinese born and bred in Malaysia are wholly unjustified.
At a time when China is emerging as a global power and extending its influence far and wide, aspersions cast on the loyalty of ethnic Chinese born and bred in Malaysia are wholly unjustified.