Malaysia PM says can't provoke Beijing on South China Sea, Uighur issue

KUALA LUMPUR - Malaysia does not want to take a confrontational stance toward China over the disputed South China Sea and Beijing’s alleged mistreatment of its minority Uighur Muslims, Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad said in an interview published on Saturday.

"We watch what they are doing, we report what they are doing, but we do not chase them away or try to be aggressive," Mahathir told BenarNews“The Malay states have existed near China for the past 2,000 years. We have survived because we know how to conduct ourselves. We don’t go around trying to be aggressive when we don’t have the capacity, so we use other means.”

Chinese President Xi Jinping has been overseeing a sweeping plan to refurbish its army as the country ramps up its presence in the South China Sea and around self-ruled Taiwan, rattling nerves around the region and in Washington.

Hypocrisy has no limit chedetofficial

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It is peculiar stance of Premiere, it is shameful.

a nation cannot call itself 'sovereign' if it cannot project it's national interest...

We won't fight them because we prefer to whip up resentment against Chinese Malays in order to stay in power.

Muslims are like 'Jihad for every Muslim facing injustice except non-profitable Uighur'. Shame on their hypocrisy.

Be a coward then. 😞

Not wanting to mention but mentioning ;)

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