I agree that Malaysia's racial policies are fundamentally unfair, but their GDP-per-capita (PPP) is $~27k. That's in the same ballpark as many European nations,

I agree that Malaysia's racial policies are fundamentally unfair, but their GDP-per-capita (PPP) is $~27k. That's in the same ballpark as many European nations, and not monumentally different from South Korea ($34.5k). From an economic perspective, I would hardly call them a failed state.