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BBC News
02-06-2025
- Business
- BBC News
BBC World Questions arrives in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
On Tuesday 10 June, BBC World Questions will come to Malaysia to debate the country's political and economic future in the country's cosmopolitan capital, Kuala Lumpur. The former Prime Minister is in jail for corruption; the new PM has promised an ethical society, but does Malaysia have the institutions to deliver that? US tech money has poured into the country, but as President Trump's tariffs prepare to bite, should Malaysia look to China or to the West as its key strategic partner? Petrol prices, freedom of speech and institutional reform are all big issues in this dynamic trading nation. Jonny Dymond is joined by a panel of political leaders to debate important questions raised by a live audience in Kuala Lumpur for World Questions Malaysia. The panel will include: Senator Dr Fuziah Salleh - Secretary General of Parti Keadilan Rakyat (PKR) and Deputy Minister for Domestic Trade and Cost of Living Dr Tricia Yeoh - Associate Professor of Practice at the University of Nottingham Malaysia's School of Politics and International Relations Wan Ahmad Fayhsal – MP, Bersatu Party and former Deputy Minister of National Unity Other panellists to be announced shortly. Gwenan Roberts, Commissioning Editor, BBC World Service English, says: 'We are delighted to bring BBC World Questions to Malaysia at such a pivotal time, as the country grapples with complex questions about political reform, economic direction, and national identity. This programme is all about giving people a voice on the issues that matter most to them - and we're excited to hear directly from Malaysians about the country's future.' The programme will be recorded in front of a live audience on Tuesday 10 June at the Petaling Jaya Performing Arts Centre (PJPAC). There will be a reception beforehand with refreshments starting at 6.00pm. For members of the public, register to be in the audience on the BBC Shows and Tours website. For press accreditation please contact: BBC World Questions: Malaysia will be first broadcast on World Service English on Saturday 14 June. It will be available online, on BBC Sounds and on most other podcast platforms. It is produced by Charlie Taylor. Listen to World Questions on BBC Sounds About BBC World Service BBC World Service delivers news content around the world in English and 41 other language services, on radio, TV, and digital. BBC World Service reaches a weekly audience of 320m (BBC Global Audience Measure 2024). BBC World Service English is an English-language radio and online network that broadcasts internationally. BBC World Service English reaches a weekly audience of 84m (2024), broadcasting news and current affairs programmes, documentaries and podcasts. For more information, visit RD
New York Times
21-05-2025
- Politics
- New York Times
Trump Is Waging War on the Future
It's fitting that a political movement whose slogan is the backward looking 'Make America Great Again' — and whose tribune, Donald Trump, appears to live in an eternal 1990 of his own mind — is waging war on the American future. This war has four theaters of conflict. In the first, Trump is waging war on constitutional government, with a full spectrum attack on the idea of the United States as a nation of laws and not men. He hopes to make it a government of one man: himself, unbound by anything other than his singular will. Should the president win his campaign against self-government, future Americans won't be citizens of a republic as much as subjects of a personalist autocracy. In the second theater of conflict, the MAGA movement is waging war on the nation's economic future, rejecting two generations of integration and interdependency with the rest of the world in favor of American autarky, of effectively closing our borders to goods and people from around the world so that the United States might make itself into an impenetrable fortress — a garrison state with the power to dictate the terms of the global order, especially in its own hemisphere. In this new world, Americans will abandon service sector work in favor of manufacturing and heavy industry. 'This is the new model,' the secretary of commerce, Howard Lutnick, said in an interview with CNBC last month, 'where you work in these kind of plants for the rest of your life, and your kids work here, and your grandkids work here.' The reality is that this particular campaign — this effort to de-skill the working population of the United States — is more likely to immiserate the country and impoverish its residents than it is to inaugurate a golden age of prosperity. Not content to leave Americans without a meaningful democratic future or one of broad economic prosperity, the White House is also fighting a pitched battle against a sustainable climate future. In the same way that Trump and his allies have rejected the obligation to pass the nation's tradition of self-governance on to the next generation, they have also rejected the obligation to pass a living planet on to those who will inherit the earth. Theirs, instead, is an agenda of unlimited resource extraction, with little regard for the consequences. Upon taking office, the president issued an executive order directing federal agencies to allow drilling in formerly protected areas. This, despite the fact that American energy production is at an all-time high — and the United States is now a net exporter of oil and gas. Want all of The Times? Subscribe.
CBC
15-05-2025
- Business
- CBC
Key takeaways from Ontario's 2025 budget
The Ontario government's 2025 budget paints a grim picture of the province's economic future in the face of U.S. tariffs. As CBC's Mike Crawley explains, the province is battling falling revenues and a deficit that's expected to more than double in size.
