Dr. M says to protect ourselves against the Chinese again! I dont get it.

Dr. M has been under fire for his anti-China stance in the press lately.  I believe he wanted to defend his position by going to his tried and true method:  pandering to protectionist ideas.

He says these Chinese that are coming to Malaysia are smart and will take over the country.  If we let all 3 million of them in, we'll straight out lose.  But towards the end, he goes and talks about we need "time" to compete.  Does this mean, after this period of "time" we let all 3 million of them come in, we will win?  Doesn't make sense to me.

"Time" is such a vague statement.  We needed "time" as the justification for the original NEP.   To this day, the NEP is still in place.  It's been how many years, 40 years?  How much time to protect Malaysia from competing with Chinese from China?  100 years?  We might as well never be able to compete.  Then we might as well just bow down and fold to Chinese competition.