Listening hard: Audience members at the recent forum waiting to ask questions as panellists discuss the importance of active neutrality in navigating geopolitical uncertainties while orbiting big powers like the United States and China. — Photos: ART CHEN/The Star
IN a tense geopolitical situation, “middle states” like Malaysia rely on making and staying friends with most nations, and getting a foot in trading blocs without antagonising others.
It is an extremely complex dance with many partners that any government of the day must come to grips with immediately. And some of those partners do not want Malaysia to dance with others of opposing cliques in this dancehall.
