Ch'au K'ar

FMT - Think tank: Axing Chinese projects will send out negative signals (extracts):

The Socio-Economic Research Centre says when a government doesn't honour contracts, it will create a sense of anxiety among investors.

PETALING JAYA: A think tank has panned the idea of calling off Chinese infrastructure projects which have already commenced, saying this will send negative signals to investors and give them a sense of uncertainty.

“When a government doesn’t honour contracts it has signed, it can create a sense of anxiety among foreign investors.

“The failure to carefully manage the review of existing contracts can affect bilateral relations,” Socio-Economic Research Centre (SERC) executive director Lee Heng Guie told FMT.

Lee was responding to comments by opposition leader Dr Mahathir Mohamad, who said a Pakatan Harapan (PH) government might stop the RM55 billion East Coast Rail Link (ECRL) if, after review, the Chinese-led project was found unnecessary.

Apart from his dislike of things Chinese** (contrast this to his 'Look East' policy), such is his personal hatred for Najib that he has thrown caution to the winds, to destroy his dislikes recklessly, wantonly, imperiously as he so wishes, ...

** except for their votes

... as if Malaysia under his rule will be his personal property to do as he wishes, as was the case in his 22-years rule, for example, building a moronic incomplete 'crooked bridge' costing hundreds of millions just to 'up the ante' in his personal grievance against the Sing government (or Lee Kuan Yew).

Re-emphasising a truth, “When a government doesn’t honour contracts it has signed, it can create a sense of anxiety among foreign investors".

The government might have got away from dishonourably reneging on an international peace deal with the former communist insurgents in rejecting Chin Peng's wish to return to his hometown of Sitiawan to be buried there (whilst allowing many Malay CTs to return to Malaysia for government-aided settlement), but we cannot afford to renege on international business contracts anymore, more so at the whims and fancies of just an elected politician.

From MM Online -
Malaysia is laughing stock over ‘Chin Peng’ affair, says ex-IGP (extarcts):

The world will laugh at Malaysia if Putrajaya insists on not allowing Chin Peng’s remains to be buried in his home country here, former top cop Tan Sri Abdul Rahim Mohd Noor has said.

Abdul Rahim — who had led the peace negotiations between Malaysia and the Malayan Communist Party (CPM) as the Special Branch chief then in the late 1980s — said it was unfair to ban Chin Peng from the country, noting that other Malay former communists have been allowed to return home.

“If the government — the authorities — succumb to this public pressure not to allow Chin Peng’s ashes to be brought back, I think, we are making Malaysia a laughing stock to the whole world,” Abdul Rahim said in an interview aired on business station BFM yesterday.

“If you say that Chin Peng as secretary-general of the party (CPM) is the highest-most member, then he qualifies to get all the privileges, advantages or whatever promises made in the agreements, which includes for him to be allowed to come back,” he added, referring to the Hat Yai Peace Accord in 1989.

Apart from loss of international credibility through lack of honouring peace and other types of treaties and contracts, it's just too bloody costly and wasteful of resources to pamper to one person's personal imperious temperament, moods, grudges, bias and penchants.

Chinese Penangites have a term for such a lack of honour or refusal to honour agreements, contracts and treaties. They would call such a person 'ch'au k'ar' or 'bad leg' (kaki jelek) which means an dishonourable untrustworthy disreputable person, especially in business deals.

Ch'au k'ar.