“…On BRI (and its impact on Malaysia with or without touching on 1MDB to a limited extent) see for example (Lim and Ng, 2022;Freedman and Bekele, 2022;Council on Foreign Relations, 2021;Schneider, 2021;Camba et al, 2021;Nambiar, 2021;Chin, 2021;Alden and Mendez, 2021;Liow et al, 2021;Sintusingha et al, 2021;Mishra et al, 2021;Dar and Seng, 2021;Kuik, 2021;Gerstl, 2020;Hong and Guanie, 2020;Noughton, 2020;Wang and Zhao, 2020;Yasmi and Wu, 2020;Zaharul et al, 2020;Hernandez, 2019;Liu and Lim, 2019). Also, it may be worthwhile to check West (2018) even when its BRI discussion is devoid in mentioning anything related to Malaysia.…”