Don't take sides, Harapan says after Hishammuddin's China remark

Pakatan Harapan today urged Putrajaya not to take any sides with any global powers after Defence Minister Hishammuddin Hussein said he will seek China's view on the recent Australia-UK-US (Aukus) trilateral nuclear submarine deal.

In a statement, the Harapan security council described Hishammuddin's remark as "strange and misplaced", and that it made Malaysia look like a country that takes instructions from China.

They stressed that Malaysia is guided by...