China's signature Belt and Road project in Malaysia, the East Coast Rail Link, may soon be chugging into life. Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad suspended the project in July 2018 after scoring a shock election win, but now -- after an additional few weeks of conflicting messages from multiple bureaucracies over the project -- Malaysia's foreign minister has said the two countries have entered "the last mile" in talks on the high-speed rail project. On Kuala Lumpur's side, Mahathir's key adviser, Daim Zainuddin, is leading the negotiations with an eye to reducing the scale and price tag of the rail link -- something that Beijing is reportedly willing to do by as much as half of the original cost....
