Pakatan Harapan today urged Putrajaya not to take any sides with any global powers after Defence Minister Hishammuddin Hussein said he will seek China's view on the recent Australia-UK-US (Aukus) trilateral nuclear submarine deal.

In a statement, the Harapan security council described Hishammuddin's remark as "strange and misplaced", and that it made Malaysia look like a country that takes instructions from China.

They stressed that Malaysia is guided by...