Malaysian musician Gaston Pong, 26, is one of the latest rising Mandopop talents, having over 1.2 million followers on TikTok. After joining a songwriting camp in Hong Kong, Pong shares his thoughts with the Post on the emergence of C-pop, or Chinese language popular music, in the global music scene, and talks about how his upbringing as a Malaysian Chinese allows him to use multiple languages musically.