Before there was ASEAN... there was MAPHILINDO (Bung Karno, post-WWII)...
Before there was MAPHILINDO... there was Malaya Irredenta (Wenceslao Q. Vinzons, pre-WWII)...
The Core Group of ASEAN is really Malaya Irredenta...
In case you have not noticed... 4 of the 5 contra-Beijing claimants in the West Philippine Sea (WPS) are Malaya Irredenta countries (Indonesia, Philippines, Malaysia, Brunei)... if Beijing succeeds in grabbing everything within its fraudulent Nine-Dash Line... the biggest loser would be Malaya Irredenta...
This the main reason why non-WPS Claimant ASEAN members have difficulty taking a much stronger anti-Beijing stance on this issue... they are not direct stakeholders...
So in case non-WPS Claimant ASEAN will continue to hew and haw about Beijing's imperialist territorial grab in the WPS... the best next course of action would be to form an Anti-Nine-Dash Line Alliance composed of the 4 Malaya Irredenta countries... plus Vietnam...
In case you have not noticed... 4 of the 5 contra-Beijing claimants in the West Philippine Sea (WPS) are Malaya Irredenta countries (Indonesia, Philippines, Malaysia, Brunei)... if Beijing succeeds in grabbing everything within its fraudulent Nine-Dash Line... the biggest loser would be Malaya Irredenta...
This the main reason why non-WPS Claimant ASEAN members have difficulty taking a much stronger anti-Beijing stance on this issue... they are not direct stakeholders...
So in case non-WPS Claimant ASEAN will continue to hew and haw about Beijing's imperialist territorial grab in the WPS... the best next course of action would be to form an Anti-Nine-Dash Line Alliance composed of the 4 Malaya Irredenta countries... plus Vietnam...
For neutrality, and lower susceptibility to Beijing's economic muscle (remember the Phnom Penh fiasco?), the Alliance HQ should be based in Brunei...
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