Foreign policy needs more fiscal bite

IT is always easy to point fingers at the media. Journalists are blamed when they don’t ask questions pertaining only to the event that is being graced by a VIP. And it is even worse for the organisers, since the event itself hardly gets the coverage they think it deserves.

For the launch of the Pakatan Harapan government’s Foreign Policy Framework by the Prime Minister at his office in Putrajaya on Wednesday, the media came early when they were informed that the Foreign Minister would be briefing them on what was supposed to commemorate another milestone in the history of Wisma Putra.