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A beautifully well written article about the true political and economic reality of the state of the nation which many Malaysians are unaware of! Keep the readers well versed with your highly skillful writing style ! Hats off to your worldly knowledge!

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The politicians who advocate and implement these racial, highly marginalising policies are self-serving and avaricious with limited considerations of the country’s future. Corruption culture is so entrenched in the country’s social fabric.

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The line: They typically enrich a class of opportunists... explains it succinctly.

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That 51%goes to the filthy rich malays doing nothing while the average malays suffers wotking as labourer. MAS, Proton and many malay manage companies had gone bankrupt loosing RM billions up for sale to foreign company management. Proton now making profits when lead by Chinese Geely.

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Thank you It's a good read but nothing new. Bolehland is on a downward slippery slope and with ever widening wealth gap amongst the majority race/population, a social inequality fight will be on the card. The minorities will be the trampled ants when elephants fight.

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What exactly do you expect from Mr Lowyat2. The bunch of them look so damn stupid.

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Just look at Singapore & Malaysia.Currency at 1/3.Mahathir is your Doom.Heading towards a bottomless pit.

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The arti le may be incomplete or some may not like it but it points out urgent needs.. dont act now, don't be in a position to act ever.

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The Title Zimbabweisation of Malaysia was not substantiated in the article.May be no comparison can be made.A non starter bcos Zimbabwe is not multi ethnic ,multiracial n multireligious to make comparisons outright.Economic policies race based here.

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A bit skewed and alarmist although worth taking note.

Also worth taking a note is his ideological perspective - basically a laissez-faire free market proponent's perspective. Almost every point raised in the op-ed deals with restrictions (perceived and/or real) on laissez-faire free market economic activities.

A nation's rise and fall depends on a way more complicated interweaving of other factors apart from the stock market and FDI.

Also note that the author himself states that Malaysia was ranked 12th in the world by the World Bank Group for ease of doing business and by some strange logic concludes that this means Malaysia is going to become a basket case. We may have 11 countries ahead of us, but we also have 185 countries behind us. If the majority of those 185 countries are not yet basket cases, what would justify Malaysia becoming one?

I agree that we won't be ahead and we won't excel. Then again, hasn't Malaysia always generally been somewhat excellent in mediocrity?

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If this 51% equity requirement is implemented. It is time for All non bumiputra races to leave Malaysia. Let Malaysia be the Malay only country. Bye Bye. So long.

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Actually, someone in Malaysia was sifu to the late Robert Mugabe to turn Rhodesia into Zimbabwi !?

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It seems to me, The writer knows more about malaysia than u.

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If you don't know Malaysia do not talk cock about Malaysia.Get lost and we have had our way to survival.

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From paradise , now hell-like for non-bumiputera entreprenuers.

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Not a very balanced write up by Mr Hunter determined to impose his views and prejudices. Nobody likes the kleptocrats of Malaysia even Malays, but write up should be balanced with equal exposure of the underhand oligopolistic tactics of certain racial groups. Also there is a lot of fronting for drug and vice money which needs to be brought to public attention. Cmon Mr Hunter *yawn*!

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