{"id":78691,"date":"2018-06-24T23:20:20","date_gmt":"2018-06-25T05:20:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=78691"},"modified":"2018-06-24T08:10:40","modified_gmt":"2018-06-24T15:10:40","slug":"second-coming-of-mahathir-to-destroy-malaysia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2018\/06\/24\/second-coming-of-mahathir-to-destroy-malaysia\/","title":{"rendered":"Second Coming of Mahathir to Destroy Malaysia"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em>Dilrook Kannangara<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Mahathir is credited for building Malaysia to what it is today. However, that doesn\u2019t mean everything he touches turns into gold. In fact, he is now going to destroy Malaysia. He has been hired by the Americans to use Malaysia as an expendable tool to attack China. The winner in that battle is obvious \u2013 China. This shows a less observed aspect of how Americans move.<\/p>\n<p>One of the first casualties of Mahathir\u2019s win is Chinese investments in Malaysia. These investments should have turned Malaysia into a regional transport and investment hub. However, blaming Najib for his soft approach to China (a narrative eerily similar to that of the West), Mahathir cancelled them. Now his nation must expect painful retaliation from China. He failed to stop at that. Now he is fortifying Malaysia\u2019s naval forces to counter China. He is focusing on western weapons dumping traditional Russian weapons. It further proves who is behind his late assumption of power literally on the deathbed.<\/p>\n<p>There is a political aspect to these anti-China policies of late. Ethnic Chinese in Malaysia are rich and have aroused the jealousy of majority Malays and Indians. This led to the introduction of the \u2018Boomiputera\u2019 law in Malaysia which did well for the nation. Chinese majority Singapore\u2019s separation from Malaysia also heightened anti-Chinese sentiments in Malaysia. However, not all anti-Chinese moves will yield good outcomes especially today. China will bypass Malaysia in its trade routes depriving Malaysia vital economic benefits. All other ASEAN nations will exploit the opportunity to benefit at the expense of Malaysia. China may even team up with Thailand to build the long awaited Kra Canal which will sink Malaysia and possibly Singapore too. Thailand accuses Malaysia for funding Islamic terrorists in south Thailand which Malaysia uses to disrupt the Kra Canal project. It is sad to see Mahathir destroying what he built \u2013 a prosperous Malaysia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dilrook Kannangara Mahathir is credited for building Malaysia to what it is today. However, that doesn\u2019t mean everything he touches turns into gold. In fact, he is now going to destroy Malaysia. He has been hired by the Americans to use Malaysia as an expendable tool to attack China. The winner in that battle is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dilrook-kannangara"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78691\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}