Pretty sure most of the world, not just Malaysians, have finally internalized the idea that the US is not to be trusted in anyway and are trying to slowly free themselves of America's grip. They cannot do it outright over night lest they end up like Libya or Iraq; it has to be done gradually and discretely. The illegal seizure of Russian assets imo was a big cause of this realization, followed by the American support for Israel's genocide, essentially telling the world "we dgaf about the rules if they're against our interests".Anwar had also surprised me with his China policy. He has been very friendly to China, and had been far more pragmatic about the SCS issues than all of his predecessors. He is the only Malaysian PM who had articulated the SCS dispute with China as a "non-serious" issue, while the others had caved into nationalistic pressure.
Bit off topic,"Allah" in Islam is the equivalent for "God" in Christianity. In Malaysia, "Allah" even as a word is super sacred.
Allah and God are not interchangeable.
God is a noun, written in Arabic as إله.
Allah is a proper noun, i.e. the name of (the Islamic) god, written as الله.
In Christianity, you'd say the name of god is Jesus/Son or the Father. In Satanism, you'd say the name of god is Lucifer.
Arab non-Muslims like Christians, for reasons unknown to me, use the word Allah to refer to their god.