How to start understanding Malaysian politics

Google and Meta AI are reasonably good at the historical stuff and interpretation of current affairs.

As with all politics, I would go back as far as possible and list

1. the traumas that matter, 

2. the execution that followed

3. the legislation that stabilised 

4. the interpretation and enforcement that followed 

In that order.

So Malaysian trauma starts with Constantinople falling to the Ottomans, locking up the silkroad, and forcing EU to seafare ... same as US trauma