Diana Teoh
Asia Global Institute Fellow
Diana Teoh is a sustainable finance and development practitioner and Asia Global Fellow at the University of Hong Kong. She works at the frontier of policy, economics, public private partnerships and development finance, focusing on channeling capital towards inclusive and impact-driven innovations in ASEAN and Africa.
Dec 15, 2025
For decades, Western multinationals and tech firms built Malaysia’s export base while China financed its railways, ports, and industrial zones -- a balance Kuala Lumpur managed with unusual ease. Now, rare-earth ambitions are pulling that equilibrium in new directions, intensifying debates at home over control, national interest, and how far neutrality can stretch.
