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Malaysia Abdicates its Role as ASEAN Leader

Our Correspondent
Jun 02, 2015
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The Malaysian government, the 2015 leader of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, seems to believe that it has found a new way of protecting its territory against Chinese claims to almost all the sea and islands of the South China Sea: kowtow to China at every opportunity.

In the past few days Putrajaya has banned two high profile pro-democracy fi…

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