Malaysia’s strategy in a world on edge

IN an age when a tweet from Washington can wipe billions off Asian markets, and a ship stuck in the Suez Canal can throw global supply chains into chaos, Malaysia can no longer afford to fly blind.

The country’s economic planners have quietly built something far more sophisticated than spreadsheets and bullet points – they’ve assembled a suite of simulation tools that help anticipate, not just react to, the storms of global disruption.