How Anti-Chinese PM Anwar Rejects UEC Without Rejecting It

How Anti-Chinese PM Anwar Rejects UEC Without Rejecting It


December 14th, 2025 by financetwitter



Besides being a good liar, one of Anwar Ibrahim’s many skillsets is to say something without saying anything. This communication style is very useful when you face a crisis in which you are trying to run away or don’t have a solution, but have to pretend that everything is under control. In short – it’s the ability to bullshit. Most snake oil salesmen possessed such marvelous skills.



The Malaysian Prime Minister also likes to throw “Big Words” in his speeches and social media, which sometimes, amusingly, forces the public to consult a dictionary and can be perceived by some as a way to sound profound without being easily understood. It gives a “fake impression” that he was very sophisticated and knowledgeable. It’s actually political rhetoric – “all talk and no action.”



He is such a big talker that he might even defeat Donald Trump in a U.S. presidential election – promising to end Ukraine war within one hour after being elected, conquers North Korea within one day, makes the U.S. a manufacturing giant again in just 4 weeks, creates a billion affordable housing with an executive order, slashes gasoline prices by half the next day he wins election and whatnot.



Mr. Anwar has also mastered during his prison time the skill of using ambiguity and nuance to scam audiences when trying to avoid sensitive issues like the UEC recognition. When he said his government has no problem recognizing UEC provided the students must first master the Malay language, he was actually rejecting UEC without directly rejecting the Unified Examination Certificate.



“This is Malaysia. The Malay language is the national language and whoever is trying to bring the message of a language must remember that Malay must be elevated as the language of knowledge that is mastered by all Malaysians,” – PM Anwar tried to be philosophical on Friday (Dec 12). Anwar, who is also the Finance Minister, said the dignity of the Malay language must be elevated in accordance with its position in the Constitution.



“If this is clear, to raise the issue of the need to increase the use of English, I agree. But Malay, the language of new technology, the language of AI (artificial intelligence), the language for knowledge, must be strengthened and there must be mastery of the language among all Malaysians. All streams – Chinese, Tamil, English, they must master the Malay language and this is also a condition we impose on international schools,” – he continued with his babbling.




Not sure where he got the idea that the Malay language is the language of AI, but perhaps the brilliant prime minister could explain why Sabah and Sarawak can recognize the UEC without any rejection from him. In fact, not a single Malay leader, nationalist, defender, hero or extremist has raised any concerns about Malay dignity when the Borneo states publicly declared the recognition of UEC.



Exactly where were Anwar Ibrahim, former premiers like Mahathir Mohamad, Najib Razak, Muhyiddin Yassin, and Ismail Sabri, as well as other Malay heroes like Akmal Saleh when Sarawak began its recognition of UEC since 2014? Is Anwar trying to say that in Borneo, despite UEC’s lack of mastery in the national language as claimed by Anwar, Sabah and Sarawak can belittle and insult Malay language due to their autonomy in education?



If UEC in Borneo can be recognized, but not UEC in Malaya, doesn’t that mean double standards and hypocrisy? All UEC graduates stressfully took UEC together with SPM examinations, with many scoring distinctions in the Malay language paper. They could write and speak (unlike imported foreign footballers), even won debate competitions in the national language – better than many Malay school’s students.




In case Anwar did not realize, or pretends to be clueless, Bahasa Melayu or Malay language is a “compulsory subject” in the UEC curriculum at Chinese independent schools. The PM might not like the fact, but the ethnic Chinese students’ pass rate in the Malay language SPM subject has consistently exceeded 96% in many years. So what type of mastery was Anwar bullshitting?



Worse, in spite of requirement for UEC students to score at least a credit in Bahasa Melayu, Anwar’s latest vague, ambiguity and nuance remarks appear to be shifting the goal post, demanding Malay mastery in other subjects too – ranging from science to technology. Essentially, UEC, which uses Mandarin as the medium of instruction, is not qualified to be recognized.



Likewise, UMNO deputy president Mohamad Hasan said the government would have no objection to recognizing the UEC if it were conducted in the national language. But if UEC is forced to change its Mandarin to Malay as medium of instruction before recognition could be granted, then it would not be called Unified Examination Certificate anymore, would it? Might as well call it Malay schools.




Yet, neither the Premier nor any racist UMNO-Malay leaders could explain why A-Levels, IB, IGCSE certificates – where the medium of instruction is “kafir” English – are gladly accepted by Malaysian public universities through their “backdoor” Direct Channel (also known as Saluran as or Open Channel) admission pathways, which serve as an alternative to the main UPU entry.



The PM was basically asking all Chinese schools to close shops and join the government schools if the non-Malays wish to further their studies at public universities. The argument is no longer about Chinese students’ proficiency in the Bahasa Melayu paper, but also every single subject just to make life difficult for the minority race. This discrimination creates obstacle after obstacle to block the Chinese from accessing public universities, despite the ethnic paying 90% of income tax.



But the Chinese community is avoiding government schools conducted in the national language with a 10-foot pole for a reason – deplorable quality. The “Malay schools” have become religious schools, where bullying and raping become a normal routine and a place to groom students for the afterlife, with 72 virgins thrown in, instead of educating students in science, technology, engineering and mathematics.




Even if all the Chinese schools are fully converted to Malay schools 2.0, there’s no guarantee that the government would not flood the schools with substandard Malay teachers obsessed with transforming students into Hamas terrorists or Islamist preachers. Clearly, Anwar wanted to destroy and eliminate the Mandarin language masqueraded as mastering Bahasa Melayu.



The despicable prime minister and UMNO try to spin and twist the UEC as a certificate that cannot be recognized just because it is in Chinese. They deliberately and conveniently ignore the fact that UEC is equivalent to the Sijil Tinggi Pelajaran Malaysia (STPM), the local variant of the A-Level qualification. It’s obvious why the government recognizes Malay-based STPM and Engish-based A-Level, but not Chinese-based UEC.



At best, Anwar Ibrahim is all along a racist who is incredibly anti-Chinese. At worst, Mr. Anwar is jealous of the Chinese education system, where its students can excel in every challenge thrown at them to the extent that recognizing UEC would risk creating a bigger gap in terms of academic performance between the pampered Malay students and the Chinese students.




The Higher Education Ministry under Zambry Abdul Kadir, another UMNO-Malay racist, said the recognition of the United Examination Certificate (UEC) should be based on the Federal Constitution, in line with the Rukun Negara and National Education Philosophy. Perhaps he should clarify under which article of the Constitution it actually recognizes A-Levels, IGCSE, or IB certification.



It’s laughable and contradictory to say UEC cannot be recognized because its medium of instruction is Mandarin, but at the same time vernacular schools in the country that uses Mandarin and Tamil are recognized within the framework of the Constitution, while A-Levels, IGCSE, and IB are also recognized despite their medium of instruction in English colonial language.



Which part of A-Levels, IGCSE, or IB syllabus that is in line with the Rukun Negara and National Education Philosophy that the UEC isn’t? Why weaponize Malay language when targeting UEC, but close both eyes when coming to A-Levels, IGCSE, or IB? If Anwar was really serious about the dignity of the Malay language, he should also stop UTM from using English as the primary medium of instruction.




Yes, should not UTM (Universiti Teknologi Malaysia), the university specially designed for only Malay students under the government’s Apartheid education system, insist on the mastery of the Malay language for its programmes instead of glorifying foreign English language? This shows that racist Anwar and UMNO’s demand for UEC to master the national language is not only double-standards, but was hatched out of “bad intention”.



In reality, the UEC is just a piece of certificate like A-Levels or STPM. The endless dispute over UEC recognition has nothing to do with the mastery or importance of the Malay language, but everything to do with discrimination and oppression on ethnic Chinese and their Mandarin language to assert “Ketuanan Melayu”, the ideology of Malay supremacy first espoused by UMNO for political survival.



Anwar’s real problem, and UMNO for that matter, is not the UEC against the Constitution but the political implications of recognizing it. The ability to consistently suppress and oppress the ethnic Chinese education system is seen as a major victory to winning Malay votes, which Anwar’s PKR (People’s Justice Party) and the Malay nationalist party UMNO are fighting tooth and nail for.




That explains why Anwar has happily allowed UMNO Youth Chief Akmal to attack, bully, intimidate and terrorize the Chinese community. It also explains why the prime minister himself tried – and failed – to ban alcohol in Chinese schools’ halls, despite knowing the existing practice of renting out halls for banquets serving alcohol for Chinese schools, crucial for their community-driven funding.



Some Malay extremists say the UEC graduates should just go study elsewhere except at public universities. Based on the same argument, can the Chinese students not pay income tax since this group of Malays hates and despises the UEC certification so much? Why target and discriminate against the UEC certificates but shamelessly welcome taxes from the UEC graduates?



The burning question is what is DAP’s next action after the Democratic Action Party sparked the UEC recognition demand to salvage its crushing defeat among the Chinese voters in the recent Sabah state election? Prime Minister Anwar has contended that UEC should not be recognized as it might weaken the national language, even though he tried to hide it with bizarre conditions.




PM Anwar is the same liar who had promised that all students with 10As and above in SPM will get matriculation places, only to make a policy U-turn and said automatic admission into the matriculation program was only for students who scored 10 straight A+. If the Madani can’t even fulfill its small promise for SPM graduates, what makes DAP so sure the PM cares about UEC graduates?



Some analysts think DAP has miscalculated when Nga Kor Ming triggered the UEC controversy. However, it could be a calculated political move in preparation to leave Anwar Madani’s government so that DAP could win back its core Chinese support. But if the spineless leadership of Anthony Loke continues to be bullied despite Anwar’s rejection, then DAP deserves another round of annihilation in the next 16th General Election.