Soon, it will no longer be beneficial to the people of these regions nor for us for them to remain colonised. We plan for independence to come to the Crown Colonies of Sarawak and North Borneo and the Federation of Malaya in January 1, 1957. They will all start as Commonwealth Realms but will be free to decide to change this after their independence. The burden of fighting the ethnic Chinese insurgencies will gradually be transferred to the local forces, the Malayan Home Guard and creating the Sarawak Home Guard and the North Borneo Home Guard with the intention of fully withdrawing from those areas, once the insurgency ends. In January 1, 1954 will be receiving partial self rule via a democratically elected legislative assembly which will serve underneath the appointed governor.

We will continue maintain a presence in Penang, Brunei, and Singapore after 1957.

Penang has become separated from the Federation of Malaya into the newly created Federal Colony of Penang, because the idea of the absorption of the British colony of Penang into the vast Malay heartland alarmed some quarters of the population, and there was a sizable Penang Secessionist Movement.

The Brunei will retain its status as a protectorate per the Sultan's wishes.

Singapore, including Christmas Island and the Cocos Islands will remain a British crown colony due to its strategic location and the naval and air bases, also shipbuilding there will be encouraged.

Context: >Von Overbeck managed to get a 10-year renewal of the lease from the Temenggong of Brunei, and a similar treaty from the Sultan of Sulu on 22 January 1878. To finance his plans for North Borneo, Overbeck found financial backing from the Dent brothers (Alfred and Edward). However, he was unable to interest his government in the territory. After efforts to sell the territory to Italy for use as a penal colony, von Overbeck withdrew in 1880

Back to British Colonial Stuff eh?! We thought things were changing. What's next, millionaire American antivaxx cunts getting funded to set up a White Green School? While Kura Kaupapa & Wananga struggle on. Kai Tahu etc got hammered, it's wall to wall white erasure in occupied Te Wai Pounamu. Much different than up North and many tauiwi, & even Maori don't get that. It would be nice if white descendants of thieving white colonials stopped this rotten behaviour.

https://twitter.com/Moce_Doce/status/1397458690945339392

" I mean couldn’t you have all bought it and gifted it back to Iwi and let them lead ... orrrrrrrr do Pākehā still know best ??? 📷📷📷📷📷📷📷📷📷 #LandBack "

" Pākehā really don’t understand what LAND BACK means aye ... happy to buy “a hill” but not realise no one owns shit and Iwi are the rightful kaitiaki and fuck right off if

@NZStuff

reckon they’re righting wrongs with Māori content but still stealing land 📷📷📷📷📷📷📷 #LandBack "" But hey the nice Kiwis who donated thousands of dollars wouldn’t have donated if people were ACTUALLY doing the right thing and taking donations to buy the land and GIVE IT THE FUCK BACK! Ughhhhh so sick of people 📷📷📷📷📷📷📷 "

https://www.teaomaori.news/maori-landowners-far-north-worry-over-council-land-grab

"Māori landowners in Far North worry over council 'land grab'

2:16pm, Tuesday 25 May 2021. By Tumamao Harawira

"Iwi say it is yet another plan to control Māori-owned land in the Far North.

Last year the Far North District Council and the other Northland councils worked on a project to map and identify significant natural areas (SNA) within each district.

Mapping identifies approximately 42% of the Far North district contains these potentially sensitive environments. This is an increase from 30% when it was last mapped in the 1990s.

The new mapping project was undertaken by consultant ecologists, Wildland Consultants, using existing literature, an inspection of new aerial photography, and site visits. A total of 685 areas deemed significant have been identified. This covers 282,696 hectares, which is approximately 42% of the

Off the top of my head, potentially no War in the Pacific, no Manchukuo etc, plus potential ramifications for China and their politics, along with no division of the Korean peninsular. The effect would be far wide-reaching I'd say.

What would be the results of the whole East Indies archipelago remaining under a single colonial authority? Would we have a large Indonesia sort of country (including whole New Guinea, Borneo and the islands of the Bismarck Sea basin)? Or would they fragment to smaller nations as they fought for independence against the British?

To His Majesty's Government in London, from His Highness' Government in Kuching

The British Military Administration in Borneo is due to be dissolved at some point later this year, most likely in July, and the return of civilian government to Borneo's British-linked territories requires some decisions to be made regarding certain questions.

Putting aside the question of His Highness' continued employment of British Civil Servants (an arrangement with which we see no problems and will continue to employ), as well as the repatriation of Japanese prisoners-of-war, Sarawak takes the greatest interest in the question of the North Borneo Chartered Company and the territories under it's jurisdiction.

It is clear to us that the NBCC is no longer fit to govern. Government by corporation, for the sole purpose of producing dividends, ought not be allowed to continue. The NBCC's assets are worthless, they can take no loans, and their shareholders have received nothing for many years now. Since 1942 the Company has been effectively defunct, with all assets under the control of the Japanese or destroyed in their invasion. The capital city of Sandakan has been left in ruins due to the war. The timber export trade has been reduced to almost nothing. The rubber plantations are burnt down. In short, North Borneo has suffered far greater than Sarawak - our capital Kuching was undamaged during the war, thank the Lord - and His Highness feels duty-bound to assist in the restoration of good government and prosperity to the territory.

His Highness therefore proposes a relatively simple solution. The Rajah of Sarawak, Anthony Brooke, will make an offer of £1.4 million for all assets of the NBCC including their Charter to govern North Borneo, and will turn this over as a free endowment to the Raj of Sarawak. In effect, this will make North Borneo part of Sarawak, while providing funds to your government to help redress the claims of the NBCC's shareholders which are even now being pressed in the courts of London. This is more than 60% of the compensation first offered during the War and given the more accurate knowledge we now have of the state of North Borneo's destruction we feel that this is a much fairer offer.

Additionally to the matter of North Borneo, there is now the matter of the island of Labuan. Until the dissolution of the Straits Settlements earlier this month and the creation of the Malayan Union and the Colony of Singapore, Labuan

Viscount Aoki Shuzo (3.3.1844 -16.2.1914) a diplomat and foreign Minister in Meiji period Japan was born to a Samurai clan as a son of a physician in Yamaguchi Prefecture. He studied western science and medicine at a school Meirinkan in Hagi.

After medical training in Nagasaki, he was sent by the clan to study in Germany in 1868. He entered the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1873. After serving as first secretary at the Ministry, he became minister to Germany in the next year. Subsequently, he held various offices including minister to Austria and Holland.

Aoki Shuzo in his letter to Munemitsu Mutsu (Foreign Minister) dated 5.12.1893 mentioned that in 1879, he had proposed that Hirobumi Itoh (Home Minister) and Count Kaoru Inoue (Foreign Affairs) should purchase North Borneo from the Austrian Baron Von Overbeck for the sum of one million yen silver in 1879 but Itoh and Inoue decline Aoki's proposal. Hence, North Borneo came under British Rule and the British North Borneo Chartered Company was established to administer the territory in 1881.

When the Chartered Company suffered heavy losses, Rajah Charles Brooke of Sarawak made a bid to take over the Company but his proposal to pay shareholders 1 % as dividend and hand over to the company one third of all the State revenue , which amounted to over $210,000 a year was not attractive to the shareholders of the Company and the bid was turned down in February 1894.

While the negotiations between the Company and Charles Brooke were in progress in 1893, Aoki visited London to investigate the feasibility of the purchase and enumerated the reasons for the purchase that North Borneo would absorb the growing population in Japan and the geographical position might contribute significantly to Japanese commercial and military purpose in the future.

Aoki mentioned that the British Government was unlikely to present any obstacles to the purchase of North Borneo from the Company because the sale would not be a great loss to them and Japan unlike other European countries was not in competition with Britain.

In 1893, the Company unofficially offered North Borneo to the Japanese Government for 500,000 pounds.

On the 7.11.1893, Aoki Shuzo who was in Berlin sent a cable to Munemitsu Mutsu:

"Are Imperial Government inclined to buy Territory of North Borneo Company for value within 500,000 pounds in order to make Japanese colony thereof. If so I will negotiate with British Government regarding cession of its sovereig

I get that this is more of an alt history focused community, but alt geography is also lumped in here on occasion so… what if Borneo was somehow inbetween Greenland and The Azores? What nation might colonize this land?