Dr. Shankaran Nambiar is head of research at the Malaysian Institute of Economic Research, and a visiting fellow at the Crawford School of Public Policy at the Australian National University in Canberra.
COVID-19 will turn the world around in more ways than anticipated. In Malaysia's case, the aftermath is likely to see the country drawn more tightly into China's sphere of influence. Some of the reasons for the readjustment will be inevitable, while others will be deliberate choices.
