spanish asia

In 1574, a battle between the Spanish and Chinese/Japanese pirates broke out close to Manila. IOTL, the Spanish managed to win, as the pirates were not organized enough and had made a critical mistake during their first assault on the city: WI Limahong did not order the prisoners to be executed...

Otl, spain never really bothered with east Asian colonies outside their weigh-station and plantations of the Philippines. However, the Philippines are incredibly close to Indonesia, and are oft considered part of the same Malay archipelago. This, on top of the sustained british, Dutch, and...

The treaty of tordesilles allowed for any land discovered by going west to fall under Spanish dominion; this being how they claimed the Philippines. Despite this, the archipelago was the only region in asia Toledo claimed. Your challenge is to give spain lasting control over the island of borneo...