Speaking to CNN in an interview broadcast on Saturday, Anwar said Chinese Premier Li Qiang gave him the assurance after Beijing released a map with a "10-dash line" last month that appeared to expand its claims in the disputed waters.Anwar said Li was "clear and categorical" in saying that China would continue to negotiate and not "exercise any action that would explode or cause dissension with our colleagues, our friends in the region.
Anwar said he would not interfere in decisions made by Malaysia's attorney general, adding that laws against seditious remarks involving the country's monarchy should be respected. He reiterated that Malaysia would not accept LGBTQ rights but said that the community should not be harassed, and he spoke out against his government'sMalaysia's home ministry this year confiscated and later banned the sale of rainbow-coloured watches from Swatch's 'Pride collection', saying they may be harmful to morality and public interest.
Selling or owning the banned material was punishable by up to three years in jail and a fine, the ministry had said. "I wouldn't defend that actually, they were as you say, excesses, but... there is a consensus in the country, they do not accept ," Anwar said.
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