Tempest in the South China Sea
On March 16 of 2009, the governments of Brunei and Malaysia exchanged letters that essentially meant Brunei had abandoned its claim to a nondescript 7,800 square kilometer patch of mud flats and mangrove swamps called Limbang, which had been claimed by both for two decades.
Over the last three months, however, the agreement appears to have blown up in Ma…
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