A good article since I have just started to know Malaysia. To understand the current situation in Malaysia we need a brief overview of the history and political and economic development of the country. —————- A footnote “The Malayan Communist Party was recognised by the British post-World War II, with its leader Chin Peng receiving the Order of the British Empire in London.” Why and how? Were not the British anti-Communists? The seemingly paradoxical alliance between the fiercely anti-communist British Empire and the Malayan Communist Party (MCP) was a marriage of convenience dictated by the extreme pragmatism of World War II . The British recognized the MCP and awarded its leader, Chin Peng , the Order of the British Empire (OBE) because, between 1941 and 1945, the British and the communists shared a single, existential enemy: Imperial Japan . [1, 2, 3] Why the British Allied with the Communists When the Japanese invaded Malaya in December 194...
“The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion (to which few members of other civilizations were converted) but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.” —Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilisation and the Remaking of the World Order, 1996, p. 51