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05 February 2013
IF YOU THINK THAT MALAYSIA,
a member and founding member of ASEAN will side with the Philippines in
the territorial disputes against China, think again. Have you noticed
that even as Malaysia lays claims to and occupies a string of islands in
the Spratlys (two of which they stole from us), China has not bothered
to talk them down?
On the contrary, the two countries get on famously! In fact, a top China political advisor, Jia, chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) is in Malaysia today to cement China-Malaysia ties announces China Communist Party official website.
Mr Jia, top China pulitburo official is in Malaysia
with a 60-member delegation to sign a string of cooperation agreements
which will be topped by the signing of documents to set up China's Xiamen University's first foreign branch and a contract to expand a seaport near the Kuantan industrial park. In fact, China
has been trumpeting that it hopes "Jia's visit would deepen bilateral
education cooperation so as to make China-Malaysia traditional
friendship last forever."
Well, our view is that this China visit to Malaysia is almost to be expected. China is now on a serious offensive using "Salami tactics"
aimed in large part at isolating "insolent" little Philippines and
Vietnam. And knowing Malaysia -- and I mean, know it very well,
opportunistic Malaysia will grovel before China (just like they
grovelled before the Japanese in WWII -- such is
the character of the Malaysians) even if it means not playing the ASEAN
card, i.e., "one for all, all for one" sort of thing, for as long a
string of UMNO and BN hotshots, including their Chinese-Malaysia
lackeys, get their fair share of the booty.
What has Malaysia got to lose?
Nothing. What have they got to win? Everything! China will be leaving
them alone in the Spratlys; perhaps will even protect Malaysia in the
future when the Philippines finally wakes up from the dead and decide to
take Sabah back. And of course, the icing on the cake is more trade growth. You see, China-Malaysia trade grew 5.3 percent on an annual basis last year to reach 94.8 billion U.S. dollars.
Both Malaysia and China have one major thing in common -- they have hijacked territories in the Spratlys well within the 200 nautical mile Exclusive Economic Zone of the Philippines -- in other words, territories that rightfully belong to the Philippines, to exploit exclusively if PH so wants.
Not
only has Malaysia illegally annexed Sabah, it also now uses Sabah to lay
claims and to occupy other islets, reefs, shoals that they say are
within Sabah's 200 nautical mile EEZ. In
1999, Malaysia occupied Gabriela Silang Reef (Erica Reef) and Pawikan
Reef (Investigator Shoal), causing the Philippines to protest but
nothing came out of it. Malaysia also occupied Swallow Reef
(Celerio for the Philippines), which they now call Layang-Layang, on the
basis that it is within Sabah's EEZ and have been maintaining a
Malaysia Navy offshore security post called Uniform Station on the reef.
