Colonial land disputes continue to resonate in the geopolitics of the South China Sea and, by extension, the fate of key Internet infrastructure that will one day traverse its disputed waters.
ACCORDING to one reason of the Sulu claim, the Sultan of Sulu mortgaged its part of Sabah to Alfred Dent and Baron Von Overbeck in 1878. The Sultan of Brunei sold its Brunei Territory to the same businessmen.