28 February 2017

3 DAP reps who slammed China-Malaysia ties too embarrassed to meet China envoy?

While DAP Political Education Bureau chief Liew Chin Tong proudly displays the group photograph of DAP elected representatives posing with the Ambassador of the People’s Republic of China HE Dr Huang Huikang during their courtesy call on the latter, conspicuously missing are its Parliamentarians and state Assemblyman from Selangor ie DAP Publicity chief cum PJ Utara MP Tony Pua, Klang MP Charles Santiago and Sekinchan state Assemblyman Ng Suee Lin. 

Are these trio too embarrassed to face up to the China envoy after how they unabashedly criticised  Prime Minister’s Dato’ Sri Najib bin Tun Abdul RAzak and his high powered entourage’s successful state visit to China in early November last year as well as China’s heavy investments into Malaysia as “selling out Malaysia” only to be served a stern rebuke by the Communist Party of China which chastised, “the CPC is disappointed when we found out that the official visit of the Prime Minister to China recently was politicized by the Opposition in this country (New Straits Times, 16 Nov 2016).”

The following denunciations were made by DAP reps in inciting anti-China, anti-investor friendly sentiments:

1)   Tony Pua – Prime Minister Najib is yielding to China’s geo-political, economic supremacy.

2)   Charles Santiago – concern that one day China will bite Malaysia real hard as it knows Malaysia is in its pockets as the needy partner. When that happens, Malaysia maybe forced to toe the line, for fear of angering China

3)   Ng Suee Lin – UMNO selling out the country or supporting Communism

Only Kluang MP Liew Chin Tong who unjustly demonised MCA’s efforts to galvanise local entrepreneurs to grab the opportunities opened by China’s Belt & Road Initiative (OBOR) as “China’s agent” was thick skin enough to join in the DAP delegation. His skin grew even thicker by posting the photograph on his Facebook with the comment that “the delegation discussed issues pertaining to … the Belt & Road Initiative, investment to Penang.”

MCA welcomes DAP’s u-turn to now favour participation in OBOR and to attract China investments into Malaysia and we laud HE Dr Huang’s magnanimity to meet DAP reps despite the latter’s earlier casting doubts against China. But DAP must acknowledge that the Rocket was wrong to hammer participating in OBOR as promoted by PM and MCA besides provoking backlash against us as “selling out” now that the Rocket has discovered from PM and MCA the advantages of strengthening, not annihilating bilateral relations and exchanges with China.

DAP must also acknowledge that in slamming BN, the Rocket conveniently overlooked that the DAP-run Penang and PKR-run Selangor state governments also similarly organized state-level trade missions to China to bring in investors.

Now in this DAP courtesy call, why restrict investment discussions only to Penang state, when the Opposition also controls Selangor and Kelantan, the latter being the poorest state on the Peninsular. Why not discuss more investments for the entire nation too?

Non-Chinese DAP rep missing from photograph

Moreover, to Malaysian voters, DAP depicts itself as a multiracial party and not a Chinese-based one. Strangely, its lineup to the Embassy of the People’s Republic of China as revealed in the photograph did not even have one DAP representative who is non-Chinese. The non-Chinese elected federal and state legislators within DAP should question its top ranked officials and explain to the public as to why non-Chinese DAP MPs or state Assemblymen are absent from the photograph.

Dato’ Ng Chok Sin
MCA Selangor State Liaison Committee Secretary
MCA Religious Harmony Bureau Deputy Chairman
MCA Central Committee Member

-MCA online-