There is a saying, that when Washington sneezes the whole world will catch a cold. Ironically, it was China that sneezed first - in the form of the outbreak on January 23 2020that led to the Covid-19 pandemic.
In a year of near-darurat (emergency), where the Malaysian economy contracted in the second quarter of 2020 by 17.1 per cent - the highest since 1998 - with Indonesia, doing no better given the growing proliferation of the epidemic of fear among Indonesian producers and consumers, leading to private sector investment and corruption being jammed up.
