In 2019, when I visited Alibaba in Hangzhou, I was told that the top five best-selling Malaysian products on Alibaba’s Tmall were No 1: white coffee, No 2: Julie’s Biscuits, No 3: white coffee, No 4: white coffee and No 5: white coffee. Malaysia can fully utilise our local agriculture products to add value to high-quality downstream products for export. Therefore, we must seriously look into local high-tech companies to assist them in growing into global companies. In this regard, the Taiwanese government has set the right policies in the past, which created global companies such as TSMC and Acer. We must set the goal high to grow our companies to be national, regional and eventually global companies.
