What will DSAI do as PM? Détente with China or give Labuan to the US?

We are told that DSAI will lower the salaries of Ministers - and, I guess, also deputy ministers - in his Cabinet. I believe we can also expect to have fewer ministers with more responsibilities. How DSAI expects to pay less to people who will have more to do, is a matter for him to sort out.

I would also remind DSAI that it should not be another case of less salary but more perks to make up for the loss in income.

Anwar vows not to take his salary if he is appointed prime minister. Pray, tell us Anwar, how then will you pay for the things that we all have to pay when we get our salary? For the house rent, utilities, food, the car, and the other things we need to pay for, to live in the style that we are accustomed to? Surely not through other perks and other claims made as per the time when you were an economic advisor to Selangor - where you were purported to be on a salary of RM1 a month! https://www.mole.my/selangor-paid-economic-adviser-rm150000-a-year/

As PM, if Azizah and Nurul are MPs, will they be given any position in your cabinet? If not in Cabinet, will they be appointed to lead any of the statutory bodies or GLCs? If not...why not if they are eminently qualified and if they are appointed, how will you deflect any claims of nepotism?

What will you do with Rafizi Ramli? The same Rafizi who came back from a political hiatus to win the number two post in PKR. The same Rafizi has been the driving force behind PKR/PH revival in PRU15. The same Rafizi Ramli who now has his 'men' in all the position that matters within PKR? And the same Rafizi Ramli that can now take over the presidency of PKR from you, if he so wishes, at the next party election?

Will you do to Rafizi what you did to Azmin Ali and to the others who have joined PKR and then left because they have agreed to disagree with how things are being done in PKR? Does Rafizi himself have any fear of the same thing happening to him, or is Rafizi Ramli confident enough of his ability to stay his course in PKR no matter what is thrown his way by others in PKR? Do not forget that Nurul is her own person and was prepared to step away from politics in PKR for reasons best known to her. We can only speculate about these reasons, but we know that she came back to PKR with Rafizi. So.... when push comes to shove, where will Azizah and Nurul stand? With DSAI or with Rafizi Ramli?

If DSAI is prime minister of a PH government, will the relationship between DAP and PKR be of equals? Or will one dominate over the other? And if so, why? Who will get the DPM post? Who will be the Finance Minister, the Minister of Defense, the KDN Minister? The Malays want to know. The Chinese want to know? The people in the civil service want to know. The Angkatan Tentera Malaysia wants to know. Malaysians want to know. And of course, the Royals too, want to know.

There is also talk of various proposals now being readied by pehak pehak tertentu - for some mega projects and land deals to be put to the prime minister for his consideration when a PH government is in Putrajaya.

These pehak pehak tertentu are associated with DSAI. These parties have 'invested' time, effort, and much money in helping DSAI in his trials and tribulations towards wanting to be PM of Malaysia. Private planes are expensive toys to use. And being businessmen, these pehak pehak tertentu will want a return on their investment when the appropriate time arrives - and having the one you invested in becoming PM, is surely the right time to get a return on your investment kan? How will DSAI handle these matters?

How will the PM of a Pakatan Harapan government handle geopolitics in this region?

Under the Reagan administration in the 1980s, the NED (National Endowment for Democracy) which acts as a grant-making foundation, was set up. Various “scholars” (American and other nationalities, maybe Australian, British, other Europeans, etc.) are funded by NED. We have a few in Malaysia featured prominently in our media, who are attached to private universities here, and others may be Malaysian academics residing overseas, who continue to follow our domestic politics closely. NED funds their research, directly or indirectly. This is how the US infiltrates our politics. And the captive minds that we Malaysians are, we think the “white” input of these academics is something to look up to, and they must have “insight” into our politics.

Anwar Ibrahim’s and his advisor's connection to the NED and their relationship with NED scholars around the world (which includes Turkey), is cause for concern.

Already, China is increasing its influence over Asian countries through trade. Trade generates security for China through interdependence because the Asean countries and China will be dependent on each other for the long term. A win-win situation for both China and the Asean countries.

That leaves the US to work on increasing its influence in these regions by signing security pacts with whatever relevant countries in these regions that they can get to sign any security pact with the US. The Philippines and Indonesia have said no to the US....in short, the Asean political-security community is moving away from the US and moving towards détente with China.

Will DSAI, who has long had close ties with the US and NED from Paul Wolfowitz times, do otherwise? How will DSAI deal with a 'request' from the US for the use of Labuan as a Naval base for the US in the ASEAN Region? Impossible you say? It is not for you or me to decide on these matters - it will be for DSAI as PM of a Pakatan Harapan government to decide on these matters.

These are some of the issues and matters that trouble me as I think of what an Anwar led PH government will do post-PRU15.

The post of the prime minister of Malaysia is not a peluang for anybody. Least of all Anwar Ibrahim who was once already the deputy Prime Minister, and, twice after that - had claimed to have been in a position to take control over the incumbent government and install himself as prime minister - but he has failed in all these attempts. So now people are saying that he should be given another peluang, to be prime minister?

Think carefully, my friends, and do what is right for our nation and for our future. Enough said.