COMMENT | Outline of Anwar’s foreign policy clarifies in China visit

COMMENT | Overborne by concern for domestic issues, Anwar Ibrahim’s first four months as prime minister have necessarily been short of intimations of what his foreign policy would be like.

Hence, his address to Tsinghua University in Beijing earlier this week, delivered in the course of a three-day visit to China, will be scrutinised for what it may indicate about his administration’s leanings in foreign policy.

Though Bernama’s report of the speech was skimpy, a quotation it cited from Anwar’s speech was notable as a statement of his stance on an issue of global significance...