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Mahathir: green light for China-backed ECRL, if price is right
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[size=1.71429]Geopolitics
Malaysia’s Mahathir: green light for China-backed East Coast Rail Link – if price is right[size=1.71429]- In an exclusive interview with the South China Morning Post, the Malaysian leader says the troubled project could still go ahead
- But only if the Chinese contractor agrees to a significant reduction on the US$13 billion price tag
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Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad gives an exclusive interview to the South China Morning Post.
[size=1.28571]Malaysian Prime Minister [size=1.28571]Mahathir Mohamad
said on Thursday he would give the green light to the China-backed East Coast Rail Link project he had previously wanted to dump – but only if the Chinese contractor agreed to a significant price reduction.
[size=1.28571]Doing so could be cheaper than cancelling the project, which would incur a hefty penalty, the prime minister told the South China Morning Post in his first interview with foreign media this year.
[size=1.28571]Soon after his election victory last May, Mahathir had said the 688km rail link – to have cost some 55 billion ringgit (US$13 billion) – needed to be cancelled because it was unnecessary and too expensive given the huge sovereign debt his predecessor Najib Razak had saddled the country with.
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