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Desperate to Survive, Malaysia’s PM Sells his Country to China

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Philip Bowring
Jul 28, 2016
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The vulnerability of Southeast Asian countries to the combination of Chinese money and their own corrupt politicians has been laid starkly bare by a new report on Malaysia’s scandal ridden 1MDB.

Desperate to extricate himself from the massive misuse of funds supposedly raised for development by the state-backed sovereign fund, Najib has turned to China. …

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