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Malaysia's moves in the SCS/WPS; merged threads
Topic Started: Sep 13 2012, 10:58 AM (2,141 Views)
Hong Nam
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Bought by China

When you want something done. It's best doing it yourself.

Relying on your so-called ASEAN partners isn't advisable. They all have their own agenda. Malaysia, Cambodia, Thailand, and Laos have China as their largest trading partner. What do you expect? Remember these times. Things come around and roles may be reversed. Forgive but never forget.

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Nothing we can do about that... it is of obvious concern that Malaysian economy is greatly dependent on china and they have agreed on something bilaterally, probably one is that china promised to not compromise Malaysian controlled islands. the thing is china is not much concern about everybody else except for Philippine-claimed islands.

so this statement from Malaysia is very selfish and undiplomatic. And our only answer would be in the future for us to stake our rightful claim to Sabah-we must press that one legally as well as militarily and lets see if they would not be concern.

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Malaysia to establish marine corps, naval base close to James Shoal

Dzirhan Mahadzir, Kuala Lumpur - IHS Jane's Defence Weekly
15 October 2013

Malaysia is to set up a marine corps and establish a naval base close to waters claimed by China, Defence Minister Hishammuddin Tun Hussein said in a statement on 10 October.

According to the statement, the Royal Malaysian Navy (RMN) base will be established at Bintulu on the South China Sea (SCS) to protect the surrounding area and oil reserves.

Unstated by the minister is the base's proximity to James Shoal, which is 60 n miles away and was the location for the People's Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) exercises on 26 March that were the most recent example of China asserting its claims to most of the SCS.

Hishammuddin's description of the marine force only states that it will be established for amphibious operations, drawn from all three services and essential for security in the East Malaysian state of Sabah, where Sulu militants staged an incursion in February that was subsequently repelled by a military operation.

The statement did not give any further details but IHS Jane's understands that the marine corps proposal was planned before the Sulu incursion but has since been prioritised.

While the marines will be drawn from all three services, the bulk is expected to be drawn from one of the three parachute battalions of the 10th Parachute brigade, which will be redesignated as a marine battalion.

The 9th Royal Malay Regiment (para) and 8th Royal Ranger Regiment (para) have both conducted amphibious warfare training as a secondary mission, most recently in June during the CARAT exercise with the US Marine Corps (USMC) and subsequently in an amphibious landing exercise with French troops and the landing platform dock FNS Tonnerre .

The marines will be drawn from existing personnel because of a government cap on the number of armed forces personnel allowed on active duty.

The Ministry of Defence is yet to decide whether marines will fall under Malaysian Army or Royal Malaysian Navy control. Initial plans call for the unit to be an independent force under the control of the Malaysian Joint Force Headquarters until operational experience determines which service is better suited.

Malaysia is keen to draw on the USMC's expertise and has been in discussions with the United States (US) over support, training and expertise exchange. Malaysia has been without an amphibious naval platform since the loss of Newport-class landing ship-tank KD Sri Inderapura in an October 2009 fire.

Plans to obtain an LPD, with France offering a downsized Mistral design and South Korea offering a downsized Dokdo design, have been stalled due to budgetary constraints. The US has offered the LPD USS Denver , scheduled to be decommissioned from US service in 2014, to Malaysia on a hot transfer along with some equipment, which likely includes AAV-7 amphibious vehicles.

The US would welcome Malaysia's establishment of a marine force as current Pentagon regulations restrict the USMC to conducting exchanges and training with marine units of non-US treaty ally nations - an exception being in the case of multiservice exercises such as CARAT. Likewise, Malaysia has been keen to further develop joint amphibious training exercises and exchanges with the US but has been hampered by the absence of a marine force.

Other than equipment for the marines, the US has offered Malaysia surplus equipment from operations in Afghanistan, including infantry weapons and sights, night-vision goggles and mine-resistant ambush protected vehicles.

The US is also offering the AH-1Z Super Cobra to meet Malaysia's requirement for an attack helicopter. While Boeing has been marketing the AH-64 Apache, the prospect of a purchase by Kuala Lumpur is unlikely due to Malaysia's disinclination to buy key military equipment in service with its neighbours: the Apache is in service with Singapore and on order by Indonesia.

France has been marketing the Eurocopter EC 665 Tiger for the same requirement and hopes to leverage the French Army's long-time assistance in training the Malaysian Army Air Corps.

Hishammuddin's announcement of a new naval base at Bintulu follows a number of unpublicised incursions by Chinese naval and maritime surveillance forces into Malaysian waters off East Malaysia and the Malaysian portion of the Spratly Islands.

Unlike Vietnam or the Philippines, Malaysia does not make public such occurrences to avoid jeopardising its strong economic ties with China. China's activities in its near waters are of concern to Kuala Lumpur, however, which has stepped up naval patrols in the area.

The RMN is hampered by its small fleet and the need to maintain a strong naval presence off Sabah to discourage further intrusions by Sulu militants. In this light, another portion of Hishammuddin's statement - that the first in class of the Second Generation Patrol Vessel - Littoral Combat Ship (SGPV-LCS) programme will start operations in 2018, gains greater importance.

Six of the SGPV-LCS corvette-class ships, which are based on the DCNS Gowind corvette family, are to be built by Boustead Naval Shipyard. Construction is expected to begin in 2014.


http://www.janes.com/article/28438/malaysia-to-establish-marine-corps-naval-base-close-to-james-shoal?
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How Is Malaysia Responding to China’s South China Sea Intrusion?

There are signs the country is mulling new measures amid Beijing’s assertiveness.


By Prashanth Parameswaran
November 03, 2015

Since 2013, a Chinese coast guard vessel has been defiantly anchored in Malaysian waters at the Luconia Shoals – which Malaysia calls Beting Patinggi Ali – in a vivid demonstration of Beijing’s growing assertiveness in the South China Sea (See: “Malaysia Responds to China’s South China Sea Intrusion”). The vessel is just 84 nautical miles from the coast of Sarawak, well inside Malaysia’s exclusive economic zone and on the southern end of China’s infamous nine-dash line, which covers about 90 percent of the South China Sea.

This is hardly the first time Chinese vessels have encroached into Malaysian waters – indeed, as I have stressed repeatedly, such intrusions have become both bolder and more frequent over the past few years (See: “Malaysia’s South China Sea Policy: Playing it Safe”). They not only pose a threat to the country’s South China Sea claims, but its extensive natural resource activities there as well as its territorial integrity.

Yet a point often missed is that Chinese encroachments directly affect the livelihoods of fishermen in the area too. Indeed, Malaysian fishermen claim that they have not been able to even enter the area for months, with reports of Chinese vessels chasing them away on past attempts. Over the weekend, Jamali Basri, chairman of the Miri Fishermen Association, claimed that the last time local fishermen had ventured into the area was in May.

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How Is Malaysia Responding to China’s South China Sea Intrusion?

Answer: NGANGA...same as the Philippines is doing right now...sad but true! Good thing we still have the faith via the UN
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I wonder why the Malaysians can't be assertive like the Vietnamese. They are relatively well armed - just in case.
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Malaysia has a strong Chinese influence in their culture if you wonder why...
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Malaysia Wants Expanded Naval Protocol Amid South China Sea Disputes

New navy chief calls for CUES to include other maritime agencies.


By Prashanth Parameswaran
December 04, 2015


The international community should expand a key naval protocol amid ongoing South China Sea disputes, Malaysia’s new naval chief said in the opening keynote address to a regional security forum December 1.

According to IHS Jane’s, Admiral Kamarulzaman Ahmad Badaruddin, the chief of the Royal Malaysian Navy (RMN), called for an expansion of the Code for Unplanned Encounters at Sea (CUES) in his remarks delivered to this year’s Maritime Security and Coastal Surveillance Conference, which some have billed the region’s largest gathering of its kind this year. CUES is a series of protocols negotiated back in 2014 at the Western Pacific Naval Symposium for the safety of vessels meeting at sea.

Noting that the RMN shared concerns expressed by leaders about the possibility of further militarization of outposts in the South China Sea, the admiral, who was just confirmed to his new position last month, said CUES ought to be “thoroughly exercised in these areas” because they served an important role in “preventing miscalculations at sea.”

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Philippines says Malaysian Navy detains 3 Pinoy fishermen in South China Sea
By: Manuel Mogato, Reuters
May 24, 2016 11:51 PM


A Malaysian naval patrol detained three Philippine fishermen for encroaching in territorial waters in the disputed Spratlys this month, the Philippine military said on Tuesday, in what may be the first such incident involving Southeast Asian neighbors.

Malaysia and the Philippines have overlapping exclusive economic zones in the disputed South China Sea, which is believed to have rich deposits of oil and gas and is almost entirely claimed by China.

But Brunei, Malaysia, the Philippines, Taiwan and Vietnam also claim the sea, through which about $5 trillion in ship-borne trade passes every year.

On May 9, the Philippine vessel was about 18 miles (29 km) southwest of Commodore Reef, one of nine Philippine-held territories in the South China Sea, when a Malaysian patrol boat intercepted it for encroaching in territorial waters.

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Malaysia has found it's cojones and joins the Indonesia Club. While the Philippine president still prefers smelling Xi Jinping's balls instead of growing a pair.

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Indonesia, Malaysia Destroying Foreign Boats to Defend Maritime Claims
September 08, 2017



Indonesia and Malaysia are reminding foreigners of their often overlooked claims in the crowded, contested South China Sea by destroying foreign boats that take fish from waters near their coastlines.

The Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency on Aug. 30 burned two foreign fishing boats as they floated on the sea, a change from the less visible practice of sinking them, media in Kuala Lumpur reported. Boat operators from China, Vietnam and the Philippines often slip into waters off the Malaysian north coast of Borneo.

In Indonesia, where vessels from the same countries as well as Malaysia come uncomfortably close to shore, authorities have destroyed 317 fishing boats in President Joko Widodo’s term since October 2014.



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