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8:35PM Sat April 3, 2021 0 Hishammuddin Hussein REUTERS 3rd April 2021 – (Kuala Lumpur) Malaysia’s foreign minister stressed on Saturday that his country remained independent in foreign policy after some social media users and opposition politicians lambasted him for referring to his Chinese counterpart as his “elder brother”. Hishammuddin Hussein, on his first visit to China as foreign minister, had expressed hope that he and Chinese State Councillor Wang Yi would pursue closer ties between the nations, including post-COVID-19 cooperation and fighting the pandemic. However, he provoked controversy back home when he told his counterpart in a joint press...
