@bernamadotcom @anwaribrahim Mungkin ada hikmahnya. Malaysia perlu beri perhatian kepada aspek kedaulatan dalam pembangunan keupayaan tempur ATM.
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PM @anwaribrahim hubungi rakan sejawat Jonas Gahr Støre dan menyampaikan bantahan Malaysia terhadap keputusan Norway membatalkan lesen eksport sistem peluru berpandu
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I conveyed Malaysia’s vehement objection in a telephone conversation with Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre regarding Norway’s unilateral and unacceptable decision to revoke the export licence for the Naval Strike Missile (NSM) system and its associated launcher systems, ostensibly to protect Norway’s security. Malaysia has honoured every obligation under this contract since 2018: scrupulously, faithfully and without equivocation. Norway, it appears, has not felt compelled to extend us the same courtesy and demonstration of good faith. I made it plain that this decision will have grave consequences for Malaysia’s defence operational readiness and the Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) modernisation programme. It will undoubtedly carry broader ramifications for the regional balance. Signed contracts are solemn instruments. They are not confetti to be scattered in so capricious a manner. If European defence suppliers reserve the right to renege with impunity, their value as strategic partners flies out the window.
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@anwaribrahim This is a blessing in disguise. The need to establish, sovereignty in our defence capability development!
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I conveyed Malaysia’s vehement objection in a telephone conversation with Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre regarding Norway’s unilateral and unacceptable decision to revoke the export licence for the Naval Strike Missile (NSM) system and its associated launcher systems, ostensibly to protect Norway’s security.
Malaysia has honoured every obligation under this contract since 2018: scrupulously, faithfully and without equivocation. Norway, it appears, has not felt compelled to extend us the same courtesy and demonstration of good faith.
I made it plain that this decision will have grave consequences for Malaysia’s defence operational readiness and the Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) modernisation programme. It will undoubtedly carry broader ramifications for the regional balance.
Signed contracts are solemn instruments. They are not confetti to be scattered in so capricious a manner. If European defence suppliers reserve the right to renege with impunity, their value as strategic partners flies out the window.
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Malaysia tegas pendirian krisis Asia Barat harus diselesaikan melalui dialog - Mohamad
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It’s the middle of the night and Trump is ranting about Pope Leo again. Someone put him to bed he’s senile!
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Salam 🇲🇾 MADANI ❤️
A heads-up on my piece in The Edge this week: "A Truly Whole-of-Nation Collaboration to Transform Private Healthcare."
Malaysia’s private healthcare landscape is at a turning point. Following a productive session with our private hospital CEOs, we are moving toward a structural transformation rooted in trust and genuine partnership:
📍 The MHIT Base Plan: We are introducing a standardised, voluntary, and affordable Medical and Health Insurance and Takaful (MHIT) option. It’s designed to widen choice and provide transparent pricing for those seeking private care, WITHOUT replacing our public health system, the bedrock to deliver Universal Health Coverage (UHC).
📍 Price Transparency through DRGs: We are implementing Diagnosis-Related Groups (DRGs) in the private sector. This is a break away from "fee-for-service" towards "value-based healthcare," ensuring patients and insurers have better cost predictability.
📍 Digital Health Interoperability: Data is critical. By sharing records via the Malaysia Digital Health Certification Network, we are reducing duplication of tests and saving costs for patients across both public and private sectors.
📍 Timeline: Our pilot begins in the Greater Klang Valley this July 2026, ahead of the national launch in January 2027.
As I wrote in the piece...
"That shift did not happen overnight - trust and a collaborative spirit were hard-earned. We are building a system that is technology-native, person-centred, and grounded in integrated care."
❤️ A resilient health system is a shared responsibility ❤️
Happy reading & care to share with friends please..🙏🌺
#MalaysiaMADANI #YakinMADANI #KKMPrihatin #MHIT
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BREAKING: Malaysia called the US-Israeli strikes on Iran “barbaric” and a “violation of international law.” It declared its US reciprocal trade agreement “null and void” after the Supreme Court struck down Trump’s tariffs. And then it picked up the phone, called Tehran, and secured toll-free passage for seven Petronas tankers through the Strait of Hormuz. Transport Minister Anthony Loke confirmed on March 31 that no toll is being imposed on Malaysian vessels because Malaysia has been designated a “friendly nation” by the IRGC. The strait that charges $2 million per crossing to everyone else lets Malaysian ships through for free.
This is the new sorting algorithm. The IRGC is not just filtering by cargo type. It is filtering by geopolitical alignment. China transits free because China buys Iranian oil and hosts the peace talks. India transits free because India maintains backchannels and refuses to condemn. Pakistan transits free because Pakistan is brokering the five-point framework in Beijing. And now Malaysia transits free because Malaysia condemned the war, nullified its American trade deal, and positioned itself as a Muslim-majority nation aligned with neither aggressor. The toll booth is not charging for passage. It is charging for allegiance. And the nations that pay nothing are the nations that owe Washington the least.
Malaysia imports 70 percent of its crude through Gulf routes. Without the exemption, Petronas tankers would face $2 million tolls plus war-risk insurance that would collapse refining margins and spike domestic petrol prices. Prime Minister Anwar thanked President Pezeshkian personally. The Iranian ambassador confirmed the designation. Seven tankers have clearance. Petronas has assured domestic fuel stability through May.
The US trade deal nullification adds the second dimension. On March 15, Malaysia’s trade minister declared the American Reciprocal Tariff agreement “null and void” after the Supreme Court ruling. Within two weeks, Malaysia secured toll-free passage from the country America is at war with. The timeline is not coincidental. It is transactional. Malaysia calculated that the cost of American displeasure is lower than the cost of $2 million per tanker crossing multiplied by every Petronas vessel for the duration of a war with no visible end date. The math chose Tehran over Washington. The math was correct.
And this is the pattern that should alarm every strategist in the Pentagon. Malaysia is not an adversary. It is a US security partner in Southeast Asia, a semiconductor packaging hub, a Five Eyes intelligence-adjacent nation, and a TPP signatory. If Malaysia can nullify a US trade deal, condemn the war as barbaric, secure free passage from the IRGC, and maintain diplomatic relations with both sides simultaneously, then the American alliance system is not being challenged by enemies. It is being arbitraged by friends. The toll booth is revealing who actually needs whom. And the answer is that a $2 million crossing fee has more immediate power over national alignment than 80 years of American security guarantees.
The IRGC did not build a blockade. It built an alignment detector. Ships that belong to nations aligned with Washington pay. Ships that belong to nations aligned with neutrality or Beijing pass free. The strait is sorting the world order in real time, and the sorting criterion is not military power. It is diplomatic flexibility.
Malaysia chose flexibility. The tankers are sailing. And Washington, as Trump promised on Truth Social, will remember.
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Shanaka Anslem Perera ⚡@shanaka86
JUST IN: Malaysia just declared the U.S.-Malaysia trade deal null and void. Not suspended. Not under review. Null and void. “It is not on hold. It is no longer there.” Those are the words of Malaysia’s Investment, Trade and Industry Minister, Datuk Seri Johari Abdul Ghani. On the record. This week. The deal was signed five months ago in Kuala Lumpur by President Trump and Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim at the ASEAN Summit. It cut tariffs from 47 percent to 19 percent. It was presented as proof that reciprocal trade works. It was the template. It no longer exists. The trigger was a Supreme Court ruling on February 20 in Learning Resources, Inc. v. Trump. The Court held that the International Emergency Economic Powers Act does not authorise presidential tariffs. IEEPA was the legal foundation beneath virtually every reciprocal tariff deal the administration signed. The Court pulled the foundation. Malaysia looked at the structure standing on nothing and walked away. No other country has done this yet. But fifteen nations are now under new Section 301 investigations launched March 11 and 12, covering structural excess capacity across sixteen economies and forced labour practices across sixty. The USTR pivoted to Section 301 within weeks of the ruling because it is the only remaining statutory vehicle for broad tariff authority. The pivot tells you the administration knows the legal ground shifted. The question every trade desk should be asking this morning is not whether Malaysia matters. Malaysia covers 12 percent of its exports to the US under the deal. The question is who follows. Every reciprocal trade agreement signed under IEEPA authority between 2025 and February 2026 now sits on the same voided legal foundation. Every counterparty government has the same option Malaysia just exercised. Every trade minister in every capital that signed one of these deals is reading the same Supreme Court opinion and asking the same question: is our agreement still enforceable? The answer, as of February 20, is that the legal basis no longer exists. The deals were signed under authority the Court has since ruled the President did not have. Malaysia is the first government to say that out loud. It will not be the last. The cascade risk is not theoretical. Roughly $500 billion in annual US trade flows run through the nations now under Section 301 investigation or bound by IEEPA-era reciprocal agreements. If even a fraction of those counterparties follow Malaysia’s precedent, the result is a simultaneous renegotiation of America’s trade architecture during a period when the Hormuz crisis is already driving energy and food inflation, the Fed is trapped at 3 percent core PCE with no room to cut, and US farmers cannot afford $900-per-ton ammonia. Carl Quintanilla posted the headline with the kind of brevity that tells you even CNBC does not know how to frame this. Because the frame is uncomfortable. The administration built a tariff architecture on a legal authority the Supreme Court ruled it never had. The first country to notice just tore up the deal on live television. The trade architecture, the fertiliser supply chain, the insurance market, the naval coalition, the planting calendar. One by one, the systems the global economy assumed were stable are revealing themselves as fragile. Malaysia just pulled another thread. open.substack.com/pub/shanakaans…
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Well done - keep it up with the tradition. Thank you to our Chinese Navy Veterans for the great support, and spirits of strong camaraderie #NavyPeople #CNY2026
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Sarawak expands hybrid rice seed production in Spaoh to boost food security theborneopost.com/2026/03/02/sar… via @@theborneopost
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Chronicles Themes in the Economic and Social History of Malaysia - edited and with an Introduction by Sultan Nazrin Shah. Followed by a seminar @stregiskl
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Chronicles Themes in the Economic and Social History of Malaysia - edited and with an Introduction by Sultan Nazrin Shah. Followed by a seminar @stregiskl
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