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This country built the $100 billion Forest City, which used the My Second Home program to attract Chinese buyers, but is now a ghost town. In this country, the yellow-shirt-wearing Bersih coalition (15[1])was opposed by pro-government red shirts, (-5[1])who referenced May 1969 riots in anti-Chinese slogans. The first overseas campus of a Chinese public university is in this country, whose Belt and Road-financed projects include a rail line from (*) Port Klang. In 2018, a former deputy prime minister of this country shockingly allied with the nonagenarian leader who once imprisoned him on sodomy charges. In this country, the 1MDB (“one”-M-D-B) fraud (10[1])was carried out by Jho Low (“joe” “low”) and led to the resignation of Najib Razak. For 10 points, name this southeast Asian country led by Anwar Ibrahim. (10[1])■END■

ANSWER: Malaysia
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