A bumpy year for M’sian diplomacy

Ties that bind: Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi bumping elbows with Hishammuddin in China in this file picture.

KUALA LUMPUR: While Malaysia may have weathered the 2021 pandemic year fairly well, it was a bumpy road for the country on the diplomatic front with some unforeseen dramatic developments that even made world headlines.

Early in the year, a diplomatic crisis emerged after a Malaysian court ruled that a North Korean businessman be extradited to the United States to face money-laundering charges that violated US-imposed sanctions on the rogue state.