Special Envoy to Kuala Lumpur
The cobalt blue dress of the Merdeka Tower will long dominate the toothless skyline of Kuala Lumpur, 687 meters above sea level.
The new Prime Minister, Anwar Ibrahim, has put an end to the race towards the sky initiated by the Malaysian capital, the new setting for the second tallest building on the planet, on the heels of the Burj Khalifa in Dubai.
“There will be no major building under my administration.
We already have the Petronas Twin Towers.
I don't want to enter this competition,”
warned the head of the national unity government of a Malaysia shaken by the Islamist tide.
A way to stand out from his predecessors, including Najib Razak, godfather of the 1MDB scandal,
"the biggest case of kleptocracy in history"
, according to Washington, amounting to billions of stolen dollars, and which launched in 2015 the construction of the imposing Merdeka tower.
The time is over for pharaonic projects, for dubious funding, while the mullahs are at the gates...
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