KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia has been able to withstand western media criticism and implement its policies because of the inherent strength of the policies and people's confidence in the leadership implementing them, Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi said.
“There was so much written in newspapers by journalists and financial analysts who were against us, lambasting Prime Minister Datuk Seri Dr Mahathir Mohamad (over his policies during the 1997 financial crisis), but we did not succumb.
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