L & M of Malaysia

Nowadays nations prepare to go to war if their natural resources are at stake. Whether it is a boundary, a piece of land, a river, sea or just a mountain. It only indicates one thing, resources are getting scarce! It could mean a wealthy multi-billion dollars oil field, a rich fishing ground or even a strategic position in time of dispute or warfare.

Malaysia indeed needs those oil rich blocks of  L & M, and now they have become the sovereignty of Brunei. We as common citizens do not know what had actually transpired! It is pain and anger for Malaysians if someone else snatched our land. One could imagine the insult to China when they had to cede their Hongkog and Macao territories to foreign forces during the darkest time of their history. Sovereignty of a nation was down to the drain!

Malaysian government had approved the go ahead of a nuclear plant in year 2021 and that is already a fact and also clear signal to all of us that Malaysia needs to depend on non-traditional way to harness energy for our consumption. Our energy and power reserves in view of the dwindling supply of  oil and gas prompted us to act this way as a contingency measure. Even we might have found oil fields in other countries such as Iran, Iraq or Somalia etc., they are still very much under the sovereignty of foreign nations. From joint-venture standpoint, Petronas might have the technical capability after many years of experience in this field, coupled with our government good relationship with these countries, to benefit from harvesting some of these newly found oil fields in the near future hopefully. The world politic changes over time, and we are not reassured that such joint venture will work forever; furthermore whatever revenue so generated in a foreign land will not help to enrich the coffer of our Malaysian government compared to oil fields found in our own land and territories!

To defend the sovereignty of our country,  we have to continue to stake our claims on all the islands and territories whether they are in East Malaysia or the Nansha and Spratly islands in south China Sea. Let time and history take its course and whatever international arbitration procedure might come into play to decide who is the final rightful owner eventually!