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Taiwan is an inalienable part of China\u2019s territory, and China must and will be reunited.\u201d\nAnwar\u2019s comments caused a conversely negative reaction in Taipei, where the Taiwanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs said on Tuesday that Anwar\u2019s \u201cone-sided support for China could negatively impact Taiwanese businesses\u2019 confidence in investing in Malaysia.\u201d\nHis apparent support for unilateral efforts to change the status quo in the Taiwan Strait via the threat of force \u201cseverely damages political trust between Taiwan and Malaysia.\u201d\nThe ministry also said that if Malaysia\u2019s leader was really a defender of human rights, as he has long claimed, he should \u201cuphold universal values such as democracy, freedom, human rights, and the rule of law, and respect the will of the people.\u201d\nThe standoff reflects the difficulties that Malaysia has faced in its attempt to maintain a balance between.\nMalaysia remains economically close to China, but has also welcomed investment from other Asian countries, including Taiwan \u2013 including in the country\u2019s high-tech industry.\nOne commentator in Malaysiakini expressed concern that Taiwan \u201cis a major investor in Penang\u2019s semiconductor sector \u2013 precisely the back-end ecosystem Malaysia wants to expand \u2013 and Taipei has threatened trade consequences. A chill in those ties could slow Malaysia\u2019s chip ambitions.\u201d\nFor years, Malaysia adhered to a \u201cOne China Policy\u201d outlined in the joint communique issued when Beijing and Kuala Lumpur established diplomatic relations in 1974. According to the communique, Malaysia \u201crecognizes the Government of the People\u2019s Republic of China as the sole legal government of China, and acknowledges the position of the Chinese Government that Taiwan is an inalienable part of the territory of the People\u2019s Republic of China.\u201d\nIn the years since, however, Malaysia has moved from simply \u201cacknowledging\u201d Beijing\u2019s \u201cposition\u201d that Taiwan is an inalienable part of the PRC \u2013 a position taken by many other nations, including the United States \u2013 to \u201crecognizing\u201d the fact.\u00a0 \u00a0The word \u201crecognize\u201d appeared in a joint statement in 2004, as well as the statements issued during Premier Li Qiang\u2019s visit to Malaysia in June 2024 and during President Xi Jinping\u2019s visit to Malaysia the following April.\nBoth statements also omitted the word \u201cpeaceful\u201d before the phrase \u201cnational reunification,\u201d a term that had appeared in all previous\u00a0bilateral documents.\nAnwar\u2019s comments to Al Jazeera went a step further, by appearing to endorse Beijing\u2019s claim to sovereignty over Taiwan, rather than merely \u201cacknowledging\u201d its position or \u201crecognizing\u201d this about Taiwan\u2019s status. His expression of support for China\u2019s possible use of force to \u201creunify\u201d China also broke new ground.\nThis led to speculation online that Anwar had \u201cupgraded\u201d Malaysia from its \u201cone China policy\u201d to Beijing\u2019s \u201cone China principle.\u201d Chinese state media have certainly treated his comments as an endorsement, with Xinhua news agency stating that Anwar had \u201creaffirmed the one-China principle.\u201d\nIt is unclear whether Anwar\u2019s comments to Al Jazeera were premeditated, or simply a slip of the tongue. It is also unclear whether Taiwan will follow through with retaliatory actions. 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