Malaysia's Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad was typically forthright in today’s BBC interview. Photo: AP Malaysia's Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad was typically forthright in today’s BBC interview. Photo: AP
Malaysia's Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad was typically forthright in today’s BBC interview. Photo: AP
This Week in Asia /  Politics

Is China’s belt and road colonialism? Mahathir: not at all

Malaysian prime minister denies his comments on free trade during a visit to Beijing were a dig at its rising economic influence – but sticks to his objections against Forest City and his description of Jews as ‘hook-nosed’

Topic |   Mahathir Mohamad
Bhavan Jaipragas
Bhavan Jaipragas

Updated: 8:00pm, 2 Oct, 2018

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Malaysia's Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad was typically forthright in today’s BBC interview. Photo: AP Malaysia's Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad was typically forthright in today’s BBC interview. Photo: AP
Malaysia's Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad was typically forthright in today’s BBC interview. Photo: AP
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