Certain things you can choose to support local but to blindly support locals due to patriotism is not the way to go.

For example, Malaysia is a rather small country and there are certain large scale manufacturing that we should not embark on, for example steel production. How much money was lost on Perwaja, Amsteel and Lion Group. It was not worth it at all. We all knew who the mastermind was... it was the undying 100 years old.

EV for example is also another one that I think we should JV with Chinese companies instead of embarking on another endless R&D while producing little to no result.