You buy FA-50, you buy from US via middleman resulting in double markup being more expensive. When comes to war, South Korea is not super power and they won't dare to deliver goods to your doorstep if situation is deadly. You buy from US, Russia or China, their shipment will still deliver whether they have to wade through battlefield.

French weapons were used to be good alternative if you cannot get American or Russian back then in 60's, 70's but today they are nothing more than overpriced unreliable impractical junks that only look good on paper like pijot.

MY and China aren't enemy. If MY at war with SG, it is US that will place embargo on MY. This is why MY buy weapons from US, Russia and now China. If either 1 doesn't work, we get another as backup.

French is part of NATO US allies, refer Falklands war where Argentine operated US & French equipment being placed on embargo by US for fighting British invaders, numbers of Argentine weapons in despair due to no spare parts. Iraq in 1989 had numbers of relatively new French weapons, they all failed against US weapons while Russian weapons that managed to do at least some killing.

Malaysia should buy some jf17 like nigeria pakistan muslim brothers to replace hawk. Hawk is retro old junks