Trade relations between the US and China had just imploded under Trump. The US placed 25% duties on around US$34 billion worth of imports from China, including cars, hard disks and aircraft parts.
The Johor-Singapore Special Economic Zone brings to mind the unsuccessful Iskandar Economic Zone and Forest City. Still, Malaysia’s Minister of Economy Rafizi Ramli says things will be different this time
A year into Donald Trump’s first presidency in 2018, Aztech Global (SGX:8AZ
) , the Singaporean manufacturing and engineering services company, started looking across the causeway into the state of Johor as a viable location for expansion.
