TOKYO — Malaysia’s former Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad said that China is destined to be the most prominent country, and that the U.S. will be unable to stop its rise given Washington’s increasingly inward-looking nature.
Speaking at Nikkei’s annual Future of Asia conference in Tokyo on Friday, Mahathir said U.S. President Donald Trump “resents the idea that China might challenge” the U.S., but “China has been there much longer than the U.S.”
