Malaysia

According to Singapore’s Lianhe Zaobao, Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir said on the 24th that if the EU continues to slander Malaysian palm oil products and even sanctions Malaysia for this reason, Malaysia will refuse to buy EU warplanes and switch to China or other countries. The European Union recently issued a document stating that palm oil should be phased out from biofuels because it "harms the environment" during the planting process, triggering a strong reaction from Malaysia, a major palm oil producer. Malaysia believes that the EU's move is discriminatory against palm oil, with the purpose of protecting other oil products such as soybean oil in the United States.

    According to the report, Mahathir said after participating in the "Love Me Palm Oil" promotion activity on the 24th that he had just returned from his visit to Pakistan in the early morning of the same day and witnessed the flying stunts of Chinese fighter planes at the Pakistan National Day parade, which made him refreshing. And appreciate Chinese science and technology. He said that he is not promoting Chinese products, but to counter the EU's containment of palm oil. "The purpose of their containment of palm oil products is to exclude us and cause the unemployment of 600,000 poor people who depend on the palm oil industry for their livelihoods." Mahathir said, "If they (the European Union) continue to target us, they will not buy palm oil. , We can also retaliate and buy airplanes from China or other countries," "I think China’s technology is not that bad, even better than the West. This is what the West fears. They don’t even allow Chinese products to enter." But he Said that the government has not discussed the purchase of planes with China.

    Agence France-Presse said on the 24th that this is Mahathir’s strongest statement to the European Union so far, which means that Malaysia may abandon the purchase of French Rafale fighters or European Typhoon fighters in order to update the country’s old rice. Grid-29 fighter.