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Malaysia Treads Carefully Amid Spratly Tensions

An accommodative economic policy may have earned no favors

May 05, 2020
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By: BA Hamzah

The recent confrontation off the Laconia Shoal –just 100 km from Sarawak and 2,000 km from China – involving the Chinese Coast Guard and other vessels harassing a drillship contracted to the national oil company Petronas has spotlighted Malaysia’s increasingly fraught relations with China. The social media is abuzz with netizen complaints …

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