No Chinese belt, road or bedrooms for Malaysia

(Aug 29): Perplexed, wounded, indignant or still optimistic. The Chinese developer Country Garden Holdings Co. can put any spin it wants on its Forest City project, a US$100 billion ($136.4 billion) Malaysian township whose fate suddenly has been thrown into doubt after Mahathir Mohamad’s pointed refusal to let foreigners buy apartments or live in them long-term.

See: Mahathir says US$100 bil Forest City Project in JB off limits to foreigners

See also: Chinese-built US$100 bil city near Singapore ‘scares everybody’

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