Taiwan pauses Malaysia investment talks over Anwar's China remarks
Kuala Lumpur is seeking a new meeting date and telling Taiwanese chip manufacturers that Malaysia remains open to hi-tech investment.
Taiwan has suspended investment talks with Malaysia, and Kuala Lumpur is trying to get them restarted while reassuring Taiwanese manufacturers that their chip projects remain welcome.
Taiwan's government confirmed on Tuesday that negotiations due in late October had been called off, the South China Morning Post reported. The paper linked the decision to comments Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim made about China and Taiwan in an August interview with Al Jazeera. Beijing claims Taiwan as its own territory.
Malaysia moved to calm Taiwanese chip investors once the pause became public, the South China Morning Post reported. Nikkei Asia reported that Kuala Lumpur is seeking a new date for the bilateral investment meeting and that Anwar is defending his government's position on China in the meantime.
Semiconductor investment is what is at stake. The South China Morning Post reported that the suspension has raised concern over the future of semiconductor investments in Malaysia, and that officials have stressed the country remains a reliable destination for hi-tech manufacturing.
A second strand concerns where chips go. Anadolu Agency reported that Anwar said there was no indication that chips brought into Malaysia had been re-exported to other countries, and that the ministry in Kuala Lumpur is investigating whether any have been. The agency reported the statement in connection with what it called the Nvidia fiasco, scrutiny of how the company's products reach other markets.
Taiwan's side confirmed the suspension but gave no new date for talks, according to the South China Morning Post. Nikkei Asia reported Malaysia's request for a fresh meeting without saying whether Taipei had answered it.
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