INTERVIEW | Senior United States diplomat Edgard D Kagan returned to Malaysia in March this year to assume the role of ambassador. He previously served as the deputy chief of mission at the US embassy in Kuala Lumpur from 2014 to 2017.

Describing the events that unfolded over the years in Malaysia as a “democratic success story”, he credited the nation’s democratic institutions for the “remarkable change” in a peaceful and stable manner.

“For us, what Malaysia and Malaysians have gone through in many ways is...