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Anwar Ibrahim: Malaysia between the superpowers

Al Jazeera Sunday 16 August 2026, 21:23 UTC 1 min read
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The Contest for Global Power Anwar Ibrahim: Malaysia between the superpowers Malaysian PM Anwar Ibrahim joins Sreenivasan Jain on justice, trade, and a middle power holding superpowers to account. As rules-based order frays, the world’s middle powers are being forced to pick sides – or carve out a path of their own. Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim joins Sreenivasan Jain to debate justice, trade and sovereignty in an age of great-power rivalry, and to ask a pointed question: when the...

A Changing World? The Contest for Global Power Anwar Ibrahim: Malaysia between the superpowers Malaysian PM Anwar Ibrahim joins Sreenivasan Jain on justice, trade, and a middle power holding superpowers to account. As rules-based order frays, the world’s middle powers are being forced to pick sides – or carve out a path of their own. Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim joins Sreenivasan Jain to debate justice, trade and sovereignty in an age of great-power rivalry, and to ask a pointed question: when the superpowers ignore the rules they wrote, can smaller nations still hold them to account – or is that just talk? Contributors: Anwar Ibrahim, prime minister of Malaysia Published On 16 Aug 2026
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