As Umno gears up for the 13th general election, dubbed its most important ever, its three key leaders delivered divergent policy speeches, all aimed at pumping up the grassroots ahead of the polls.

While the party president Najib Abdul Razak took on a more moderate and conciliatory tone, his deputy Muhyiddin Yassin's opening address for the party's three wings was a classic Ketuanan Melayu fear-mongering affair, with all guns blazing, but the barrels were mostly pointed at the Chinese.