SINGAPORE (June 25): Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad has revived the muscular foreign policy that characterised his first stint in power, seeking to renegotiate a longstanding water supply agreement with Singapore and taking shots at both the US and China.

In an interview with Bloomberg Television’s Haslinda Amin, the 92-year-old Mahathir criticised a 1962 water supply deal with Singapore as “too costly,” adding to tensions after he announced plans to cancel a multibillion-dollar high-speed rail project that would’ve connected Kuala Lumpur to the city-state.

Water is among issues with Singapore “that we need to settle,” Mahathir said on Friday at his office in Kuala Lumpur. “We will sit down and talk with them, like civilised people.”

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