Gunboat Diplomacy

[My article below was published on Brunei Times on 7th March 2011. The interesting legal question would be are the agreements signed between the two countries valid as clearly Sultan Omar Ali Saifuddin II was forced at gun point into signing the agreements?]+++++The Golden LegacyGunboat Diplomacyby Rozan YunosSir Winston Churchill, the British Prime Minister during the Second World War said that