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 　　KUALA LUMPUR — President Barak Obamaheads to Malaysia this weekend, where the hostgovernment’s handling of the disappearance ofthe Malaysia Airways flight has drawninternational attention - and criticism. But evencritics note that Malaysia has successfully usedits diplomatic connections to cobble together avast multinational search effort, in which boththe U.S. and China have featured prominently.

　　It has been more than six weeks since MalaysiaAirlines flight MH370 disappeared, shining anintense and sustained international spotlight on Malaysia.

　　Fruitless search

　　Top officials, such as Acting Transportation Minister Hishamuddin Hussein, have faced a barrageof tough questioning and criticism from the international media over their handling of the sofar fruitless search.

　　“I hope and I hope appeal to everybody that, though we understand their concerns we aretrying our very best,” he said.

　　Malaysia's ruling party has been in charge for more than 50 years. Professor Azmi Sharom saysit was totally unprepared for such scrutiny.

　　“They are more used to the more docile local media so it's not surprising that they didn't knowhow to handle it. Also there's a tradition of non-transparency with regards to governmenttactivities and in this situation absolute transparency was necessary,” he said.

　　Despite missteps in releasing information, strategic analyst Steve Wong and others havepraised Malaysia’s success in getting as many as two dozen countries, including both China andthe U.S., to assist with the search.

　　“It's a triumph of Malaysia's foreign policy and diplomacy within the region, although it isshaped as I said both by what it is capable of doing. It is not a China. It is not a large power. Itis a friendly power to all the countries concerned. And it is a power that actually is in need ofhelp,” said Wong.

　　Was CIA involved?

　　But days before U.S. President Barack Obama’s first visit to Malaysia, a newspaper seen as themouthpiece of the ruling party wrote an editorial suggesting the CIA may have beenresponsible for the flight’s disappearance.

　　Policy analyst Wan Saiful Wan Jan says such wild claims are counterproductive for the searcheffort and the government's image.

　　“It is tremendously embarrassing to us I think, not just the ruling party but the whole countryshould be embarrassed by this, for a major newspaper, seen as a mainstream newspaperbeing linked to the ruling party, being able to say ridiculous statements like this,” he said.

　　Political analyst Karim Raslan says the flight’s disappearance has clearly strained relations withChina whose media and officials have criticized Malaysia’s handling of the crisis.

　　“The Chinese authorities have an ability to allow nationalist sentiment to be whipped up againstcertain countries and parties. They've done it with Japan. Are they going to unleash the forceson Malaysia? I think that that would be very irresponsible, and it's entirely within their chargeand within their call,” said Raslan.

　　But both U.S. and Chinese officials have acknowledged that this disappearance of flightMH370 has been an unprecedented event that very few countries would have been equippedto deal with.

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