Political Change in the South Region

The main political changes in the Southeast Asian region by the beginning of the 20th century. Can be reduced to the following: the disappearance of two independent states on the Indochina Peninsula - Burma and Vietnam; Preservation of the sovereignty of Siam; Inclusion of the Shansko-Laotian territories respectively in British Burma, French Indochina and Siam; The final section of the Malaysian-Indonesian subregion between England and Holland; The capture of the Philippines by the United States.

In the mid-80s, England unleashed the third Anglo-Burmese war and in November-December 1885 occupied the Kon-Bown Burma, adding it to British Burma. The invaders faced a people's war that swept the country and continued until the end of the XIX - early XX century.

In 1873, France, having begun aggression against Vietnam, in 1883 forced him to sign a treaty on the protectorate. With the seizure of Luang Prabang (Laos) in 1893, the creation of the French colonial empire in Southeast Asia, the Indochina Union, was completed. But the resistance of the people of Indochina to the co-lonial conquest continued. The struggle against the detachments of the talented Vietnamese commander De Thama was especially hard for the French. The political changes in the Southeast ...

Siam, despite the division into spheres of influence, skillfully used the Anglo-French rivalry and support of Russia, which established diplomatic relations with it, and retained the independence of its indigenous national territory. Under contracts with France and England, Siam lost power over part of the Laotian principalities and the Malayan sultanates, and also lost the provinces of Battambang and Siem Reap.

The political processes in the island subregion of Southeast Asia also went in the direction of expanding the expansion of capitalist states and the division of colonial possessions.

In 1874, the British concluded a Pangkor treaty with the Per-Malay sultanate Perak, who initiated the subordination of the Malay states. In 1896, four of them - Perak, Selangor, Pahang and Negri-Sembilan - were united in a federation. In 1907 England forced Siam to abandon supreme power over Kedah, Perlis, Trenggan, Ke-lanthan.

In the history of Indonesia, a crucial role was played by the Treaty of 1871 between England and the Netherlands, according to which the United Kingdom recognized the "rights" of its rival to North Sumatra. After the war with the North Sumatran Sultanate of Ace (1873-1913) colonization of other independent states of the archipelago began.

Political developments in Southeast Asia