Alternate History of Southeast Asia (1950)

An imaginary alternate history visualized and narrated by Anonymous Kabataan

5 years after the end of the Second World War, the world is now in peace but peace is not yet felt in some parts of the world especially here in Southeast Asia. As you see the map, the Armed Forces of the Philippines invades the British-occupied Sabah after the British refused to return Sabah to the Sulu Sultanate which swore an oath of allegiance to the Republic of the Philippines promising that after the Filipino victory in obtaining Sabah, the Philippines would become a federal parliamentary republic where the Moro people have their own constitution and parliament to keep their own identity and at the same time they have representatives in the Parliament of the Federal Republic of the Philippines. This conflict between the British Empire and the Republic of the Philippines would soon escalate into a territorial crisis called the 1950 Sabah Crisis in which the United States of America would be forced to mediate the situation on the side of the Philippines because of its 1946 Philippine-American Defense Treaty.

After the days of the Anglo-Philippine Conflict, U.S. President Harry S. Truman mediated the situation where he forced the British to give Sabah to the Philippines in exchange for the British right to control Malaya and North Borneo. The 1952 Treaty of Paris was signed between the representatives of the Philippines and Britain where France was a mediator together with the United States. The treaty states that the British will give Sabah to the Philippines in exchange for $ 20 Million to be paid by the United States to Britain. Soon this decolonization event would soon be taken advantage of by the Republic of Nusantara in revenge to take back Malaya and North Borneo which were lost by the return of the British amidst the Japanese defeat in the Second World War in Asia. In response, the Republic of Nusantara sent secretly their representatives to the Philippines and the United States to sign two separate mutual defense treaties which were the 1953 Philippine-Nusantaran Mutual Defense Treaty and 1954 Nusantaran-American Mutual Defense Treaty.