A Malaysian port city grapples with the fallout from Chinese funding

Mongabay
Aug 24, 2018, 7:44 am269 pts
KUANTAN, Malaysia — Beijing is more than 4,200 kilometers (2,600 miles) north of the sandy beaches, oil palm plantations and tropical forests that distinguish peninsula Malaysia’s less prosperous South China Sea east coast from the rollicking economic growth on its western shore along the Strait of Malacca.…

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