southeast asia and i think on monday chinese leaders were hoping to present a united front with dr mahathir because of course his visit here to the chinese capital comes amid the deepening trade friction between china and the united states ahead of this visit dr mahathir had said he wanted to renegotiate a number of trade deals with china deals that were struck by his predecessor knowledge of brazil and deals that he says are skewed in china's favor lopsided with the words that dr mahathir used before coming to beijing there was no sign though the jury in his talks with chinese leaders that they had in fact agreed to do that dr mahathir says that he hopes that china's leaders will look favorably sympathetically on his request he said malaysia didn't want confrontation he said malaysia supported free trade but also wanted trade that was fair he said he wanted to avoid a situation where a new type of colonialism was developing where it became difficult for poor countries to compete against rich ones it's not clear whether he was quoting china with being a colonial power now dr materia who tur

southeast asia and i think on monday chinese leaders were hoping to present a united front with dr mahathir because of course his visit here to the chinese capital comes amid the deepening trade friction between china and the united states ahead of this visit dr mahathir had said he wanted to renegotiate a number of trade deals with china deals that were struck by his predecessor. and deals that he says are skewed in china's favor lopsided with the words the doctor used before coming to beijing there was no sign though the jury in his talks with chinese leaders that they had in fact agreed to do that dr mahathir says that he hopes that china's leaders will look favorably sympathetically on his request he said malaysia didn't want confrontation he said malaysia supported free trade but also wanted trade that was fair he said he wanted to avoid a situation where a new type of colonialism was developing where it became difficult for poor countries to compete against rich ones it's not clear whether he was quoting china with being a colonial power now dr materia who turned ninety three last mon