Are Malaysia’s Reforms Humbug?
If there is one lesson that we can learn from Malaysia's just-concluded parliamentary debates on the prime minister’s much hyped "reform" bills, it is that the only way to reform a corrupt autocracy is to get rid of it, not to reform it.
In three days of intensive debates from December 15 to 17, the Barisan Nasional (BN), the nation’s ruling coalition, r…
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