Foreign Policies of Tun Abdul Razak Period and Their Influences on Malaysia

* The Malaysian government rejects criticism and threats of the Western government and environmentalists, making no changes to current policies but keeping a close eye on fixing some of the problems, particularly in Eastern Malaysia.

The U.S. and Australian alliance share an interest in maintaining the peace and stability in the Asian- Pacific

The first challenge for Australian foreign policy is to maximize the economic and security opportunities by maintaining their relationship with Indonesia and ASEAN. In the case with Indonesia, Indonesia is one of Australia’s closest friends as the two countries share strong security and economic system. In terms of politics, Indonesia is essential to Australia because Indonesia plays a key role in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations so a steady relationship with Indonesia is required for a cohesive and productive relationship with ASEAN. Moreover, Indonesia is the most important country in Southeast Asia with one of the most powerful military forces in the region. Therefore, Indonesia already controls and wants to improve its effect over ASEAN. According to researches, Indonesian motives for improving its role as regional peacekeeper have been revealed in recent perspectives by the general of the Indonesia’s military, who stated, Indonesian motives of playing a ‘big brother’ role with the respect to security in ASEAN and in the region (Tiernan, 2007).

As Indonesian society continues to transform, so has the national interest in global politics. This has seen an increase in regional and global affairs, triggering a growth in environmental activism, and a greater awareness for implementation of crime prevention and migration strategies. Indonesia has strongly supported the inclusion of Australia in the East Asia Summit (EAS), a conference which examines economic, political, security and environmental issues within the region. Conversely, Indonesian society has benefitted from its increasing ties with Australia, allowing it to better develop a relationship with the United States (a close and powerful ally of Australia). Australia’s relationships with

Indonesia is the largest country in South East Asia and the third most populous in the world. Indonesia’s geographic proximity to Australia makes its bilateral relationship with Australia an important one for both

Selective invocation of responses to human rights abuses and inconsistent foreign policy will negatively affect Australia’s diplomatic credibility, and its status as a middle power. Your minister is advised to ensure, at a national level, that government actions and statements do not undermine the credibility of the UN human rights system. Following Julie Bishop’s delegation to the Philippines in March this year were discrepancies in what was discussed in the private meeting between Australia’s foreign minister and President Duterte. While Bishop insists the Philippines anti-drug campaign was discussed at length, Duterte publically praised Australia’s ‘courtesy’ for not discussing human rights. Discussions of this type executed privately risk increasing the credibility of the Philippine government’s violations. Future meetings should be both more formal and more public, leading to clearer outcomes and less room for

This area includes the following countries; Australia, China, Cambodia, Myanmar, Mongolia, Papua New Guinea, Timor-Leste, The Philippines and Viet Nam.

“In recent years, the United States has reaffirmed its desire and determination to be a Pacific Power” (Liu, Lisong). In order for this reaffirmation to happen, it will take open-mindedness, determination and acceptance to move our country forward in its foreign relations endeavor of today’s Asian culture. In order to begin to understand relations between the United States and modern East Asia from World War II forward, one must first fully understand and appreciate the dynamic of complexity and hardship that ravenged the region at that time.

Malaysia is a democratic country with excellent economic system. We are one the leading country in economic terms and being an example for the economy system we are using. In Malaysia, we are into mixed economy system. This economy system is the leading type of economic system that is used in most of the countries such as United States. Mixed economy system includes a mixture of capitalism and socialism. It combines private economic freedom, centralized economic planning and government regulation. Government plays major role in economic growth as well as distribution of wealth. For example, our government collects tax and provides subsidies at the same time for the public.

Mahathir as a legendary leader of extraordinary vision, who has single-handedly transformed, modernized, industrialized, and strengthened the national economy. Dr Mahathir Mohammad, the fourth Prime Minister of Malaysia and known as greatest leader in Malaysia. He is a very well-known political leader who served as Prime Minister of Malaysia for 21 year, this cause him become

The rapid rise in economy of China has turned this country into rival of America. However, in an effort to change the trade policies of China, stop military operations reinforce Beijing 's South China Sea from America, but that’s not enough improve diplomatic relations with 11 countries in the TPP agreement. Beijing said the United States is a force only in Asia as they want, while China will forever be a force in Asia. As candid statement of the Prime Minister of Singapore Lee Hsien Loong during his visit to Washington last August, the TPP will "challenge the prestige" of the United States with partners in the region. According to Mr. Li, each nation has faced some opposition political and sensitive issue in the country, pay a political price to get to the negotiating table and signed agreements but finally they cannot receive what they want. Now, United State diplomats do not have what they want in Asia, After the US told the regional partners was signed TPP will strengthen America 's leadership position in the region, the regional partner also concluded to be a waiver of TPP would undermine America 's leadership position and China is ready to be leadership position which vacated this area. In terms of the overall situation of power in Asia, the US withdrew from the TPP, that means United State is bringing the beneficial strategy for China, not only because a trade agreement supported by the United States, U.S foreign policies will be disappear forever

The ruling party of Malaysia, Barisan Nasional has been in power since the country’s independence in 1957. This fact has provided Malaysia a high degree of stability and the confidence of foreign investors / businesses.

ASEAN was officially founded in August 1967 when five founding member states jointly signed the Bangkok declaration. Since then ASEAN experienced number of threats, such as security threat in cold war, economic and financial threat in 1997 East Asia Economic crisis, and now being in the security dilemma between the United States and the People’s Republic of China, prominent major powers attempting to dominate the region, despite all the threat, ASEAN set its goal to become a community in December 2015 which has lot of potential to contribute to the world stage but it also has countless number of challenges, mainly caused by its diversities, nationalism and lack of

In terms acceleration of economic growth is based on the measurement of GDP, MALAYSIA HAS recorded a growth of 5.1% last year. Although it is lower than 7.2% in 2010, but it was so roaring in the context of a difficult global economic environment and uncertainty. In contrast, global economic growth has dropped from 5.2% in 2010 to 3.8% in 2011 while the economy of the developed countries like USA, Germany, UK, France and Japan also recorded weak growth of respectively 1.5%, 2.7%, 1.1 %, 1.7% and -0.5% in the same year; far lower than Malaysia's achievements. Following a satisfactory GDP growth was assisted by the Federal government revenue increased by RM13.2 billion in 2011 through increased collection of IRB estimate of RM109.7 billion compared with RM96.5 billion the government has managed to reduce its fiscal deficit to 5.0% compared projection of 5.4%. This means that the GOVERNMENT has successfully steered the nation's economy as well as the control and management of public funds wisely in the past 3 years in a row when managed to bring down the fiscal deficit from 7.0% in 2009 to 5.6% (2010) and 5.0% in the past year in a expanding economy.

Malaysia is a unique country. It is made up of multi-ethnic group who are living in harmony. Conflict among ethnic group is rare and even if conflict occurs, is not to the extent of destroying the country. In fact, it is the diversity that drives the development of the country and makes this country colourful. Malaysia has been recognized by the world as a model for other plural societies. The concept of ‘unity in diversity’ is always insisted by the leaders. The concept is now supported with the ‘1 Malaysia’ concept which is introduced by the current Prime Minister. The Malaysian government is always put efforts to ensure the