Look for what we can offer the world

Soft power: (Clockwise from left) File photo of Shah Rukh Khan waving to hundreds of fans who gathered outside his home on his birthday; ‘dizi’ TV serials from Turkey are going global in a big way; the BTS boys speaking a the UN; K-pop fans cut across racial lines wherever there’s a concert.

While Malaysians look inwards and find new non-issues to hyperventilate over, other Asian countries are looking at the rest of the world and finding ways to export their cultures.

THESE are the things that make me weary: