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KUALA LUMPUR, 13 April — Sungai Pelek assemblyman Ronnie Liu was insulting DAP with his inference that it must “out-Chinese” the rival MCA, Damansara MP Tony Pua said.

Responding to reports of Liu saying DAP should not sacrifice its Chinese identity and culture to fend off political rivals’ attacks, Pua argued that his party colleague was short sighted as such a strategy would leave it politically dependent on a Malay patron party.

“Frankly speaking, that is perhaps the biggest insult one can throw at the DAP today. MCA has ‘Chineseness’ themselves into oblivion today. They are completely at the mercy of the whims and fancies of the big-brothers, Umno, Bersatu and PAS who provide MCA with political life-support.

“And yet, Liu wants the party to reverse the progress we have made over more than a decade to protect our ‘Chineseness’. That is as chauvinist as one can get and the DAP can certainly do without such chauvinists in the party,” Pua said in a statement today.

Pursuing the strategy Liu wanted would doom DAP, Pua said when expressing relief that the former’s views were allegedly in the minority.

Pua added that he and other DAP colleagues have been working to shape DAP into an inclusive party based around justice, good governance and integrity, which he said was in line with party veteran Lim Kit Siang’s Malaysian Dream.

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