Mahathir redux: Greater potential for conflict when Chinese rich, Malays poor

Mahathir has not changed one iota. His Malay Dilemma playbook about the rich, mercenary and predatory Chinese remains embedded in his bones.

The quote captioned below – about potential for racial conflict from wealth disparity because “the rich belongs to one race”- comes from a Mahathir interview in mid-2018, which is only less than a year ago.

Half a century down the road, the 94-year-old Malay ultra is still echoing the same ideas he crystalized in his 13 May 1969 opus (published 1970).