Posted on 07/22/2022 8:38:54 AM PDT by FarCenter
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While Malaysia will likely be able to suppress the arbitral award eventually, this case is a reminder that boundaries drawn in colonial times sit uneasily with more ancient cultural linkages.
Oblivious to the modern border between Malaysia and the Philippines, locals have traveled across the Sulu Sea for years. Malaysia set up an expensive new border force after the 2013 intrusion, but it has failed to stop the illegal movement of people between Sabah and Mindanao. Indeed, most of the foreign Islamist fighters who joined the seizure of the city of Marawi in Mindanao in 2017 arrived via Sabah.
The modern land borders between Thailand and Malaysia, and between Indonesia and Papua New Guinea, are similarly ignored by many in those places.
Thailand's ethnic Malay-dominated southern provinces have more in common historically and culturally with the northern Malaysian states of Perlis, Kedah and Kelantan than with other Thai provinces. Many Thai Malays illegally hold Malaysian citizenship, and smuggling is rife along the border.
Similarly, residents of Indonesia's side of the island of New Guinea move back and forth across the border as they choose. Their natural instinct is to look east toward their Melanesian kinsfolk in Papua New Guinea.
It is no accident then that are also people living in these areas of Southeast Asia who support moves to redraw the colonial borders or to simply secede from the country to which they find themselves attached.
(Excerpt) Read more at asia.nikkei.com ...
Is George Takei being a Drama Queen again?
Mine is creepier than yours!
It's working, Jim.
> Mine is creepier than yours! <
I don’t see how you could possibly know that. Oh, wait. You’re talking about Sulu pictures. At first I thought you were talking about ex-wives.
Returning to the topic:
Islam is just as much bent on world domination as China, and has been at it longer.
“locals have traveled across the Sulu Sea for years”
That’s about it.
For quite some time, it was a “No Go Zone”.
Bombings still happening all the way over in Isabela City.
Still wacky and dangerous, just like the drop-dead beautiful ladies of those precious Islands.
Don’t use Tagalog there, Bisaya will help, but they speak another langauge entirely.
Uha ho babu—dayang!
Oh my.
President Duarte wouldn’t do to them what he did with the drug dealers. Too many muslims. Drug dealers are easier to eliminate. Very popular.
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