To hedge bets as elections near, Clinton to meet Anwar, Kit Siang, Hadi

Wong Choon Mei, Malaysia Chronicle

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is rarely likely to take time off her bustling schedule to encounter with Pakatan Rakyat leaders Anwar Ibrahim, Lim Kit Siang as well as Hadi Awang, although such the pierce competence enrage as well as trigger threats of protests from Prime Minister Najib Razaks Umno party.

And whilst oil to Umnos fire, Clintons public approval for Malaysias initial significant antithesis will carry huge implications as well as send reverberations opposite general tactful as well as commercial operation corridors although the supervision here competence exclude to admit the development.

In general, it is not unusual for U.S. officials to encounter with vital antithesis celebration leaders when they revisit 'democracies as well as generally if elections appear to be coming up in the nearby future. It is regularly the intelligent pierce to hedge your bets so to speak, the tactful spectator in Washington told Malaysia Chronicle.

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Clinton will arrive in Kuala Lumpur for the short-visit upon Monday as part of the two-week Asian debate as well as will skip for Papua New Guinea upon November 3.

Azizah as well as the charismatic AnwarWhile, in Malaysia she will encounter Najib, comparison officials, plead bi-lateral ties, foster trade, as well as plead educational exchanges between the two countries.

According to the observer, Clintons team would have considered many angles before reaching their
decision, together with the need for the U.S. to uncover as well as attest the await for democracy as well as polite multitude in the unfamiliar policy.

We need to put the income where the mouth is, generally ! in the n ation like Malaysia, where you competence be means to have the difference. We can't do most about Myanmar, but in Malaysia maybe you can have the difference, pronounced the observer.

It would be the great idea to encounter with the leaders of Pakatan because you do not want the people in Malaysia to think you have been pro-Umno. We need to be balanced.

U.S. to uncover offset hand - not pro-Umno

But already, there is accordant bid by Najib as well as his cohorts to discourage her from bestowing any form of approval for Anwar as well as his Pakatan colleagues. Not as well prolonged ago, former Australian premier Kevin Rudd was forced to repel the programmed assembly with Anwar during the final moment due to heated vigour from the Malaysian government.

Karpal as well as Kit SiangUmno or the United Malays National Organization has ruled Malaysia since 1957 with the assistance of several coalition mates. In the 2008 inhabitant polls, Pakatan won some-more than half of the popular opinion to benefit control of 5 of the country's thirteen states, denying the Umno-BN an important two-thirds parliamentary majority.

It has continued to benefit ground as well as detached from Anwar, who also leads the People's Justice Party (PKR) with his wife Wan Azizah, the other two Pakatan parties have been the Democratic Action Party (DAP) led by Lim Kit Siang as well as Karpal Singh, as well as the Pan-Malaysian Islamic Party (PAS) led by Hadi Awang as well as Nik Aziz Nik Mat.

There have been already protests upon pro-Umno blogs notice her not to revisit Anwar. Such reactions have been to be expected as well as zero particularly surprising, Dr Ong Kian Ming, professor of political scholarship during UCSI University, told Malaysia Chronicle.

Hadi as well as Nik AzizSurprising or not, Clinton is unlikely to be deterred as well as the Najib administration department not expected to scowl for prolonged either, given that Malaysia does need U.S. unfamiliar approach investments as well as troops protection as the check to China's flourishing assertiveness in Asia.

When Madeline Albright met with Wan Azizah in 2008, the Government was angry, but they didn't retaliate. If you go to Malaysia as well as do not encounter with Anwar, afterwards you will be criticized in the U.S. by human rights groups as well as important friends of Anwar. We have to think about American politics, too, pronounced the observer.

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