主题：THE FAILED COUNTRIES 失败的国家们 -- Jen

'Right now, there are so many problems with Western countries. The problem in the West is that they have borrowed too much and cannot repay. You cannot have that kind of a country as a model,' Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad, 86, was quoted by the national news agency Bernama as saying.

'If you want to copy or learn something, learn from the successful people, not from the failures,' he told an international conference on Islamic finance in northern Malaysia.