MALAYSIAN Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad wants to strengthen “good relations” with Beijing, but is urging Chinese investors to refrain from relying only on material, capital and labour from back home and denying his country any real benefits.
The 92-year-old leader’s setting out of the terms for better relations in an exclusive interview with the South China Morning Post came in the wake of widespread unease that his defeated predecessor, Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak, had been too lax in approving Chinese-backed projects that offered little value to local players.