Mahathir is coming back, at least in spirit if not personally. Let’s invoke Sharia and kill all the Chinese so the Malay can flounder around in their fundamentalist fury.
Fortunately, most Malay have been smarter than that recently. The Chinese/Malay split is a festering sore that can unite the Malay at times. The businesses are owned and run by Chinese in spite of past legal “reforms” discriminating against them.
That said, Chinese are clannish keeping everything in the family and extremely aggressive. The quite look down on the Malay. The biggest problems the Malay have are Islam and a lesser work ethic than the Chinese (I’d say most everyone has a work ethic that suffers in comparison to the Chinese).
After spending one week in Malaysia, I learned that the real rivalry is between Chinese/Malay vs. Indians. The Malay-Malay are playing neutral amdist the rivalry.