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Between Scylla and Charybdis? Emerging New Malaysia and Its Enigmatic Relations with China
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Emile Kok-Kheng Yeoh
Leiden
Brill
This article traces the evolution of China-Malaysia relations under National Front Prime Minister Najib Razak and the Alliance of Hope Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad. While the Belt and Road Initiative (bri) strengthened Beijing's support of Najib's kleptocratic regime in Malaysia, the 2018 general elections brought the anti-graft Alliance of Hope coalition led by Mahathir into power. Under Mahathir's leadership, Malaysia cancelled several large-scale infrastructural projects like the East Coast Rail Link (ecrl), owing to their links with Najib's 1mdb scandal and the unfavorable terms of the bri which put Malaysia severely in China's debt. Although this curtailed Beijing's use of Malaysia as a pawn in its goals in the region, it alienated some of the new Alliance of Hope's supporters and saw the loss of much Chinese investment. However, Malaysia had already been caught in the bri's web and Mahathir had to mend fences with Beijing by renegotiating better deals and redefining Malaysia's relations with China. As Malaysia is geopolitically strategic to China's extension of influence in Southeast Asia, Beijing willingly cut the ecrl cost by a third. It is in such context and with due consideration of the changing developments in the Alliance of Hope's perception of Malaysia's relations with China that this article will explore the enigmatic nature of China-Malaysia relations as the latter strives to protect its sovereignty against Chinese influence and Beijing continues to press its charm offensive through the bri.
2020
209-235
Bandung
7/2
2198-3534
1mdb scandal
African Studies
American Studies
Asian Studies
Belt and Road Initiative in Malaysia
General
Latin America
Literature and Cultural Studies
Malaysia
Postcolonial Literature & Culture
rise of China
Sino-Malaysia relations
Social Sciences
Emile Kok-Kheng Yeoh
10.1163/21983534-00702004
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