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  1. Malaysia's former Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad says the Indo-Pacific Economic Framework (IPEF) championed by U.S. President Joe Biden is inherently political, since it excludes China. "When you have a grouping that excludes China [in the Indo-Pacific region], it is political and not [about] the economy," he said. "So that is a problem with the groupings that are formed by the U.S. They are always political." He added that the IPEF, launched this week with 13 inaugural members, is an attempt to "apply pressure against China." "That is a very wrong attitude for the grouping,"
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