Local companies should capitalise on the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA) as a platform to grow their business globally instead of seeing it as a threat, the Institute for Democracy and Economic Affairs (Ideas) said.
Its chief executive officer, Wan Saiful Wan Jan, said business owners should not lose confidence in doing business abroad and should view the TPPA agreement from an economic point of view, not politics.
“Malaysia used to take over international companies and turned them into local companies, but now it had lost that sort of confidence,” he told reporters on the sidelines of a TPPA forum entitled ‘TPPA: Will the US bully us’, in Kuala Lumpur today. Read more