Malaysia's Machiavellian Culture
Dismal political theatre
By: Murray Hunter
The ‘Sheraton Putsch’ of March 2020 that removed Malaysia’s reform Pakatan Harapan government from power, the replacement of former Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin with Ismail Sabri Yaakob, the dissolution of the Sabah and Melaka state assemblies, and now the latest, in Johor on January 22, have one thing in common. They are solely squa…