I wonder if Malaysia was not so dependent on China’s considerable potential for tourism, trade and cooperation in the East Asian Summit, all of which will benefit Malaysia enormously, there would ever be any investigation into the police abuses of Chinese nationals and the call for the deputy minister to apologise.
We ask a pertinent question because until the abuses of Chinese nationals have been brought out into the news to China’s displeasure, there has been no talk at all about any check on the police or police reform, despite a very recent Royal Commission of Inquiry on police misconduct coming up with hundreds of recommendations. The fact that police had continued with their unsavoury ways after the Commission has revealed its findings and recommendations shows that the Malaysian law enforcers viewed the Commission Report with contempt.
Even now, there have emerged suggestions that the woman involved in the nude-ear-squat abuse might not have been a Chinese national afterall. But really, does that matter (other than a feeble attempt to ameliorate China’s anger)?
An abuse is an abuse, regardless of the power or identity of the nation of the abused.
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