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Prediction of the state election in Johor

 3-cornered fight (BN-PH-PN) In the Johor election, should the election be held, the election would result in a hung state assembly. The election will see Perikatan Nasional win the most seats, then Pakatan Harapan and finally Barisan Nasional.  Since the election coincides with the Iran war, Perikatan Nasional will emerge as the frontrunner of the state polls because Tan Sri Muhyiddin and his colleagues will unveil similar austerity measures taken during the Covid 19 pandemic which may be favorable to the Malay community in Johor., who are unahappy with the measures taken by Anwar Ibrahim regarding petrol prices. This will greatly affect rural areas. The disgruntlement of Malays with UMNO and Pakatan Harapan might push them to support Perikatan Nasional.  Although the election result in 2022 was a BN landslide, it was made on the basis that Najib and many other corrupt figures would be released. However, since the GE15 on 19th November 2022, BN has been destabilized. Per...

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The Wall Street Journal 1.2M Followers US has a big ask for China: Buy less oil from Russia, more from America

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  The Wall Street Journal 1.2M  Followers US has a big ask for China: Buy less oil from Russia, more from America China Petroleum & Chemical Corp. storage tanks at the container terminal in Hong Kong. © Bloomberg News Ahead of President Trump’s visit to Beijing, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent is considering putting a tricky trade-off on the agenda for coming talks with his Chinese counterpart: reducing China’s oil purchases from U.S. adversaries like Russia. In private consultations held in recent days with former U.S. officials, business executives and policy analysts, Bessent described a continuing effort to try to get China to instead buy American oil-and-gas products, said people familiar with the meetings. Bessent is thinking about raising the energy issue, the people said, in a meeting with his Chinese counterpart,  Vice Premier He Lifeng , in Paris in mid-March. They are planning to firm up a framework for the April summit between Trump and Chinese leade...