Given the strategic importance of testing volume, as worldwide experience over one and half year with the pandemic indicates, we might want to ascribe a higher priority to it.
With inflation inching upwards, it would be difficult for the government to dish out more stimulus in the future when the country needs it without overheating the economy.
COVID-19 vaccines may have been wielded not only as a diplomatic tool but also as means of coercion for the reshaping of global geopolitical landscape.
Unlike Kurt Campbell, the Indo-Pacific Affairs Coordinator of President Joe Biden, who announced last week that "US engagement with China" has ended, signifying the fraying of the Sino-US tie, Malaysia will not end its engagement.