Letter to editor

MALAYSIA will need more strategic long-term calculations on its future economic and geopolitical interests by starting to implement steps to pivot away from over-reliance on one economic superpower in safeguarding its short term needs.

This will make the country even more vulnerable in long-term strategic returns, especially in seeing the uncertainties in China’s perceived durability in its economic and hard power resilience.

This remains critical not only for our national sovereignty and territorial integrity but also concerns the security of our oil and gas (O&G) assets which make up the bulk of our main economic contributor with our economic survival and the livelihoods of millions at stake.

Our deterrence capacity is hapless against the might of Beijing’s military build-up and yet we are reluctant to shift our foreign policy approach and have been dangerously slow and lagging behind as compared to our neighbouring players.

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