NO sooner after social media celebrated the best moments of 2023 and prayed for stability in 2024, the “Dubai Move” emerged: another alleged power grab in Malaysian politics supposedly brewing. (In Western democracies, commentators tend to suffix ‘-gate’ to everything to denote a scandal, after the Watergate scandal; in Malaysia, we have become equally good at appending any geographical location with ‘Move’ to signify an intended change of government through means other than general elections.)
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