Dato’ Sri Ismail Sabri- Straight to The Point: Malaysia wants U.S. Investments.
1. The visit of Malaysian Prime Minister Dato’ Sri Ismail Sabri (DSIS) to the White House today was the main event which was long time coming. President of the United States Joe Biden hosted in-person the leaders of ASEAN for a two-day ASEAN-US special summit. DSIS led the Malaysian delegation for this work visit with the interests of Malaysians in mind. 2. Yesterday, DSIS led by example by publicly extending his intent to invite Tesla, one of the most popular electric car makers in the world to invest in Malaysia to produce electric cars. Although the American electric vehicle company are already in discussion with Malaysia’s neighbouring country, Indonesia to build a probable factory in the republic, Malaysia’s position as one of the prominent semi-conductor industries presents a strategic preposition to the likes of Tesla to establish their presence here. DSIS was brave to consider mentioning this in public to Ted Osius, president and CEO of US-ASEAN Business Council (US-AB...