Well, for starters we can't even tolerate each other as
neighbors across a shallow waterway, much less being part of the
same nation - living under the same banner, with common goals and a
common creed.
The argument that a confluence of trends opens up the
possibility of merger makes a good argument. Certainly merger can
help both parties serves their ends - for us it's a need to
rejuvenate a near stagnating economy, for them it would be a new
impetus to wipe out old structures of race-driven politics. But to
each of those ends agendas seperate goals and motivations of which
the solution of merger might serve to fulfill, but also carries
with it the bitter memory of failure.
Should merger fail to serve both parties interest eventually,
would the old lines of division resurface? Ad what will then become
of these confluence of trends, but ammunition for the merchants of
division who's source of power lie in stiring up these very
divisions?
I for one agree with MeatPao and Display Name, that greater
regionalism is the way forward - an integrated Asean model without
the inclination towards nationalistic fervor.
