Dr M speaks on “The Future of Democracy in Asia”

Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad said, "I may be accused of being a dictator, but I like to differ. And today, a dictator will talk about democracy," when he delivered a talk on “The Future of Democracy in Asia” at The Royal Institute of International Affairs, commonly known as Chatham House in London on Monday.

[@kamsingchoo4332]

The US will not want a person like him to be d Secretary-general of UN,, he speaks with no fear or favour. Long live Tun! He does Malaysia proud!

[@mfahmy786]

Nn

[@mistycloud4455]

A.G.I Will be man's last invention

[@gerardbok3105]

He is in no position to speak abt democracy.

[@xxsemanxx]

No text at all. Adressing some of the most intelligent person in UK. And hes 93. Impressive.

[@jimmychoo6341]

Prime minister of Malaysia is far sighted and he is honest and brave with his opinions. This country will progress speedily for as long as he is in the administration.

[@musnahkantahilembu8342]

lol bodo

[@chelecil6295]

Asean tiger come back again,, love u Tun M

[@TheFierina]

wow, i am genuinely learning more about a democratic system, and its intricacies as i listen to him! very apt.

[@ajeeb3871]

Malaysian Hero,.♥💖

[@saravanakumar8709]

tun mahathir made Malaysia proud ..he is the greatest leader in malaysia.. he saved our country from thief.. god bless you you tun mahathir..

[@MyKakashi123]

najib nor zahid nor anyone in UMNO nor PAS can talk like this....

[@Fatahiyah]

Hairizal Dahrin Who is the fool here?

[@jamestan8266]

@fadzil jaafar , God. Must have discussed with this Great man Tun M,. Can you save this great nation,. I want you,. to turn this Malaysia around and the dirty, corrupted leaders. Will be washout. If you take my. OFFER,. I will. Help this great nation and reward you with this world record , Your 100 th birthday and you are Still the prime minister of MALAYSiA. God bless. YOU. TUN

[@Rayang4ver]

Pls do research before commenting to avoid embarrassing yourself. Thanks.

[@normakassim8688]

Tun has been in high gear on this international trip.He looks drained, poor Tun still sharp in thoughts. Take care Tun with best wishes.

[@MuhammadAhmad-mp2vy]

Luar biasa Pak Mahathir...

[@faiznpsb1234]

Wow love u Tun❤️🇲🇾

[@mayrauwerd]

Dignity & Respect is back for Malaysia. Love you Tun M.

[@AzzrudinJamil]

I think most people knows this but Tun just breaks the taboo in saying it publicly.

[@jamestan8266]

Which country in the world, having A leader at 93 of age. This. Is A true Malaysian Prime Minister Tun. Which Prime Minister, in the world that organized the stealing of the Billions of money, is Malaysia ex prime minister,. ""CASH is KING "" the corrupted. Najib Razak and family. God bless Tun M and the devil bless the najib , & family . This is a great country, but stealing, Corruptions is okay with one party ruling the country. For 61 years. With a simple Moto of You help me and I help you.

[@norsaadah9360]

that's right james..you scratch my back i'll scratch yours...that is survival umno's philosophy

[@mirinneshinare8020]

James Tan ... culture of covering up each other's sins all these years. Money matters above all else even though they're religious.

[@MyHungho]

Good, fair, and brave man, MR. Malaysia Prime Minister. That is the man could be good for people, who help people...Good job!

[@myazleoful]

A remarkable malaysian prime minister

[@nabilahhalimi8745]

Yes. Terbaik la Tun

[@artraygalleryart1159]

Bravo. Good speech through great observation of Asian and Malaysian open democracy. Money is Evil if use unwisely. Corruption is a bad practice. Keep up the great work.👍👍👍👍👍

[@puterihangiv3944]

Love You Always Tun ♥️♥️♥️🇲🇾 Our Super Legend ♥️♥️♥️🇲🇾🌺

[@irishque]

AMAZING! at 93 y/o..go figure!

[@abdulrahmanbinabdulhamid8677]

THANK YOU TUN! YOU HAVE MADE MALAYSIANS PROUD TO BE MALAYSIANS AGAIN!

[@lingding3208]

🤣😄you are not a dictator Tun

[@kcl5309]

Makes Malaysian proud all over the world

[@ppacademy2507]

Malaysia beruntung punya Mahatir yang sangat bagus bahasa inggris nya jadi gak malu di dunia international, indonesia punya Jokowi yang bhs inggris nya bentat bentut bikin malu, hopefully in 2019 we gonna have a new president like Prabowo who can speak in english fluently.

[@andymr8123]

Prengki Pransisco ya saya setuju pada sisi bahasa Inggeris Pak Jokowi agak kurang enak didengar tapi pada sisi yang lainnya pula kinergi hasil kerjanya emang mantap. Ya usah dibimbangkan sangat tahap bahasa Inggeris Pak Jokowi asalkan dia bekerja dengan ikhlas & jujur demi memajukan Indonesia. Pada saya ngak apa2 kalau bahasa inggerisnya kurang baik asalkan hasil kerjanya mantap & nasib rakyat terbela. Najib bahasa Inggerisnya memang bagus tapi malangnya moralnya rendah,oleh itu kami sebagai rakyat Malaysia ngak suka sama sekali...Ya tapi kalau bahasa ingeris bagus level of confident jugak bisa naik, tapi ngak apa2 kalau inggeris kurang baik kerna yg penting hasilnya...

[@annatsukiya]

Bahasa Inggris =/= Skills. Good attitude and mind set is the most important.

[@avidika882]

saya setuju andy. kalo punya bahasa inggeris yang mantap bagus, tapi kalo dia PM yang bagus, sudah cukup.

[@utixgranules4351]

Bahasa inggris bukanlah satu kemestian untuk jadi pemimpin yang baik. Ianya hanyalah satu bonus..Banyak juga pemimpin negara maju tidak bisa berbahasa inggris..

[@thangasamyroy1764]

As Malaysian I see President Jokowi the best ever..by speaking fluent English doesn't mean that leader the best for the country..Najib also fluent in English but did he good leader????

[@azaddinothman9746]

So 93 year old age is not really an old aged for certain kind of human.. extraordinary..

[@Farhan_TruthLover]

I like his Joking.. 😀 He is a nice leader of Malaysia.

[@makwan5818]

Far han .

[@margaretlim9180]

Love u Tun.

[@beyourselfrespecteveryone201]

Bright Mind. I wish him the best to set strong democratic and economics foundation.

[@hamzah1039]

Malaysian should be proud to Dr.Tun Mahathir back as PM.

[@siewengpoh7194]

Tun M I feel proud that you return to be our Prime Minister again. In fact, I went home during GE14 to be PACA for PH. But as Malaysian Chinese, I am strongly disagree on your statement that Malaysian Chinese are wealthy, I found myself difficult to earn a living in Malaysia, therefore I am now working in Saudi for nearly 10 years to support my family. And I only have 3 kits ; my husband take up 2 jobs and his father till now still working. My father in law now is 75 years old.

[@Arepeel]

You could not be more true... Not all chinese are wealthy

[@aqidahukm]

yes can't agree more.Across any races, there are those who are wealthy, average and poor,. there should be a new definition to identify who is wealthy and not, not just by race despite that some must be helped . I think if a Chinese, Indian, Malay who live at the same level of the economy as average or low average society - there must be a better mechanism to serve all . It would take time....pray for the best.

[@ZharifZhafri]

"...and today dictator is going to talk about democracy." - Tun M.. haha

[@ZharifZhafri]

@Hairizal Dahrin huhuhu

[@addinannas7909]

Hairizal Dahrin.., u should find a reason why he told her wife to not wear aurah.., he wife already told us about this issue in public.., smartphone Mahal Masi bawa tempurung😂😂

[@nabilahhalimi8745]

Tun is a funny man 😁

[@dahliadahalan1370]

Together with Tun Mahathir making Malaysia great again. Tun Mahathir 💟

[@aec4765]

Proud of you Tun M

[@badrulhishammohdnoor6558]

So our new retirement age should be 93.

[@TYT695]

95 hehehe

[@norsaadah9360]

if we can make that long.....insya.allah

[@SuperMohdNoor1]

Democracy, like liberty, justice and other social and political rights. They are earned through courage, resolution and sacrifice 👍TUN

[@naasifmohamed2761]

May Almighty Allah bless DrTun Mahatir Mohamed strong,sound and blissful health to serve Malaysia in particular and the betterment of this world's peace in general..

[@aljukimong]

democracy must have its own level ... discipline most important to stabilize administrations of some countries

[@amirulashaffabrahman5050]

FIND IT INSPIRING DOING YOUR WORK WHILE LISTENING TO MAHATHIR SPEECH.

[@franconnero756]

Tun at 93 still mentally strong and steady

[@avidika882]

i love my dictator if that is what he is. long live my adorable PM the dictator. LOL.

[@zulkiflimdhussain1863]

Democracy gives each country freedom to practice the policy that they used to administrate the government .

[@avidika882]

for democracy to work, you need an educated society that will understand and know how it works. if democracy is implemented in a society that is not ready to accept it, there will be chaos and defeat the purpose it is intended for. the west needs to understand asia more instead of merely pushing for it. we need to implement it step by step. the west can be stupid at times. i am all for democracy but even in democracy , there should be accountability. freedom of press does not mean you can destroy privacy of others and private life. sensationalising issues and misreporting to sell your media. and many others. democracy stil needs people to make it work, i mean leadership and also maturity. and also authoritative leaders at times. when you need to stroke, there is no 2 ways about it.

[@zulkiflimdhussain1863]

Once democracy is fully practiced in Asia , the region once will come up as a strong power !

[@zulkiflimdhussain1863]

Democracy in Asia should be aligned with political changes of the region concerned in order to make the practice of democratically remain stable !

[@ainaazaharee9870]

It is either he memorised his text or he just went full on being the malaysian tiger. Kudos to Tun!

[@tansrishabilaliali6499]

DEMOCRACY NO MONARCH DICTATOR MONEY CASH IS KING

[@rafizisruz5578]

Hmm..we still have to depend on democracy..but actually, we have to admit that democracy is not the best system at all...it is alternative to other systems in the world... we have to make democracy system with a few adjustment that suitable our country, our value system and our people.... no nation has the same culture to stick exactly to the pure democracy... even some superpowers dont care much about the basic of democracy pricipal when they have veto powers... ..for instance, democracy in parliament representatives are base on majority votes, but some decision making in majority votes are to benefits their own interest, their political power, to gain more money or to get more social influence... no politician want to service just for welfare.. So, democracy always need a few adjustment according to value system that suit people of certain cultures...

[@niealiee6209]

An old man with the smart brain of coursed yes mahathir mohamed in the eye of the world

[@zulkiflimdhussain1863]

In order for Asian countries to maintain peace and stabiliy both political and economic , they have to practice democracy independently !

[@peopleisland72]

Democracy gave Tun Mahathir a second chance. Use the time wisely.

[@saleemhashmi4131]

Democracy in pipe line seems in good shape, but when out of pipe line it becomes shape less . It means in theory it is good form of government , but in practice it turns to bad form of governance .

[@Ari-ft3lm]

I think we are the Eastern should change the Arab Country's to be The Middle West.

[@adnanzaida5660]

Tun is the greatest Islamic leader in malaysia

[@abbieadry1073]

All the arguments sum up everything for my comparative politics subject. Mashallah, you're so wise, knowledgable and hv a strong memory!

[@hambatuhan5751]

Zahid komedi ckap jawa la klo dijemput event ni..macai akan terpegun dgn tatabahasa zahid."demi merangkumkan kesepaduan umno,kesepakatan dan kebolehupayaan harus ditingkatkan".itu lah zahid pye teknik pengucapan..

[@donmf9335]

WHO WAS THE ONE QUESTIONING ABOUT TUN M"s '' PERFECTIONIST "'….??? CAN ANYONE AT TUN's AGE CAN GIVE THIS KIND OF SPEECH AND SHARP KNOWLEDGE " PERFECTIONIST " IS SOMEONE WHO IS BEEN RECOGNISED AND RESPECTED INTERNATIONALLY. WHO IS OUTSPOKEN SPEAKS WITHOUT FEAR AND FAVOUR. IF WE DON'T KNOW WHAT TO SPEAK ITS BETTER TO REMAIN SILENT COS THE MOMENT WE START TO SPEAK , WE WILL SHOW OUT STUPIDITY …...

[@masifm4699]

Nice Leader Muslim

[@samawemamawe6786]

So true, is malaysia also facing this? THANK U NAJIB, 😡😡

[@ChowBrian]

‼️Truly specking, no one knows what Tun M going to relate in this to Malaysia⁉️ and YES indeed Democracy is not suitable to every country, but it is suitable and good for for Malaysia⁉️ He is blurry blush through, but I think he is telling the Malaysian Malay majority that do not understand Democracy and hope some TOP people who they look up to can do something on behalf of them and that’s is monarchy as within his speech, because over 61 years of corruption culture, Malays today had no life direction and do not even know how to run their life in the democratic way of life that is free of choose, because their life are lash by the religionists and phobia to do outside the limitation of the narrow minded religion rules and regulation, their life are confused and cannot see and imagine any future by just making lots of babies to increase and strengthen to support religion practice without realise what is it for⁉️😨 This people hate others races by saying they ripping them with no clues of what so ever become their religionists tell them so😡, If they can open up theirs EYES to see those who succeeded in business and making lots of money are people do not put religion on the table, do not put religion on the mouth, do not put religion on their daily life, RELIGION are personal reference and guidance to overcome their daily life problem, NOT for show talk and walk with it carry around on your head on your mouth and on your body to show around but do not understand what it is for😳, that’s why Tun M are speechless about this topic to Malaysia‼️

[@sikoleyley1359]

Sekarang, Diktator nak ckp pasal demokrasi.. 😂😂😂😂🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@mohdalirosli6945]

Superb Tun Mahathir

[@wazadewit7806]

Democracy for China! Freedom!

[@sephiroth99999]

destroy the ccp, gogogogo

[@afendiujud4684]

He is putting his race in a Democracy section but not for others

[@fidelcatsro6948]

Viva Socialist Democratica!

[@PissMenn]

Malaysia talking about democracy is a joke

[@albertwongwong9806]

a great leader....respect.

[@muhaimincs]

now democratic has fail... America please come invade msia now... prove to us this system actually can work haha

[@vesterj5286]

As a sabahan you only talking nonsense..talking democracy...

[@garylee5054]

apa u repek ni

[@zaczain5654]

English is difficult...I understand

[@BlackRose-ir2fj]

@@zaczain5654 hahaha..👍

[@kimiederps4189]

Repek...awak tu yg x faham 🙂

[@siewengpoh7194]

I agree with you, not all Malaysian Chinese are well educated and wealthy

[@samyjames420]

Ini la gary siput(spongebob’s pet) yang masih dalam cangkerangnya😂😂😂. Masih d bawah ketiak Najib..sungguh kasihan