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During Mahathir Mohamad's second term as the Prime Minister of Malaysia, he embarked on a series of official visits to various countries.These visits aimed to strengthen diplomatic ties, promote economic cooperation, and engage in discussions on global and regional issues.
Mahathir meets with United States Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in 2018. On 11 May 2018, US President Donald Trump congratulated Mahathir on becoming the seventh prime minister of Malaysia, [64] [65] with the White House saying America is looking forward to working closely with it to address common international and regional challenges. [66]
A 7-Eleven store in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.The Japanese-owned American chain of convenience store has around 2,000 stores in the country as of 2016. [31] [32]The earliest significant economic relations between the territories now part of Malaysia, in particular Malaya, was the US involvement in the production and trade of tin and rubber. [33]
Mahathir, a two-time prime minister who's been a fixture in Malaysian politics for decades, said Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim's government is using corruption charges to go after political rivals.
Mahathir considered Russia to become a future rival to the United States and Israel and praised Putin for criticizing and standing up to American and Western interference in other sovereign states. In 2012, Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak met Putin during the Asia-Pacific Economic Co-operation summit in Russia to expand trade relations and ...
Mahathir was the CEO and Chairman, and hence a senior adviser, for many flagship Malaysian companies such as Proton, Perdana Leadership Foundation and Malaysia's government-owned oil and gas company Petronas. [174] Mahathir and Abdullah had a major fallout over Proton in 2005.
Mahathir is a vocal critic of neoliberalism [2] and the Western world. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] In 2011, Mahathir suggested that the September 11 attacks might have been staged by the United States government . [ 5 ] [ 6 ] Mahathir condemned the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1997, suggesting it be revised to place greater importance on economic ...
Map of countries with diplomatic missions of Malaysia shown in blue. Malaysia is an active member of various international organisations, including the Commonwealth of Nations, the United Nations, the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation, and the Non-Aligned Movement. It has also in recent times been an active proponent of regional co-operation.