Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim said Malaysia which has long looked to Japan and South Korea as models for economic development, is now also interested in learning from China.

“We need to be open to revising any policy that has been in place for 40 years,” he told Asahi Shimbun in an interview in Tokyo on Dec 17.

He was referring to the Look East Policy that fourth prime minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad introduced in 1982 to learn economic modernisation strategies...