RandAlThor @ RandAlThor @lemmy.ca

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lol awesome. love it! haven't seen that one yet.

Your nick has me curious. Are you from one of the hill tribes of Burma?

It depends on how much reading you want to do. I find the most insightful author on Burma's civil wars is Bertil Lintner, former journalist who covered Burma and Southeast Asia for decades. Thant Myint-U is the most extensively published historian on Myanmar. His 2019 book https://wwnorton.com/books/the-hidden-history-of-burma should cover the background on current conflicts and Chinese role in it (as I vaguely recall). Wikipedia is not fully reliable as it is but a location for information war on internet. I find some articles on Foreign Policy somewhat naive. Council on Foreign Relations has this brief backgrounder on Burma: https://www.cfr.org/backgrounder/myanmar-history-coup-military-rule-ethnic-conflict-rohingya. It devotes half a sentence to the source of ethnic wars since independence: "Divisions purposely created under British colonial rule...". Lintner and Myint-U will give the best insights. This report is succinct in covering China's role and influence in Burma: https://www.usip.org/publications/2018/09/chinas-role-myanmars-internal-conflicts

Reposting my comment in Myanmar here to answer. It isn't on charm offensive. This situation is interesting because China is the one arming both sides of the conflict. China is the chief arms supplier to the military Junta whose weapons have been killing civilians. It is with Chinese blessing and Chinese weapons that guerilla group Brotherhood Alliance launched its 1027 operation last year that’s been highly successful against the Junta.

China has in the past gone alone (while rejecting participation of regional and other global powers) in brokering peace in Burma forcing both the Junta and the guerillas to sit down at meetings in southern China without participation of other regional countries. China has been the one meeting with Burma’s current and former dictators in past two months, including Wang's visit to Myanmar 2 days ago.

In an about-face, China is now seeking greater regional cooperation in Burma’s internal affairs. It may well be that the situation is spinning out of control for China, and Chinese are worried their strategic interests are now poised to crumble in Myanmar.

This party is going to take votes away from Liberals. It can only help the Cons.

Now we know the real reason why Chinese are invading its neighbors in South China Sea.

Good good! Let the exodus to Lemmy begin!

Not only did they ban it, but they also barred its leaders from running in elections for 10 years: https://lemmy.ca/post/26497747.

Reuters and AP articles are INCOMPLETE.

They are freaking crazy. This court doesn't understand "democracy" if they think advocating for a law change is anti-democratic.

I'm sure Albertans and Cons will blame Trudeau!

Chinese warships and ice breakers are passing through Canadian arctic waters regularly these days.

Your reading comprehension is poor. I made zero point about US power. You keep deflecting the issue of your basic error and minimizing the Chinese aggression against its neighbors. Issue is Chinese expansion and aggression in South China Sea, in the straits of Taiwan and Sea of Japan, and how it's neighbors are now banding together to prepare for this aggression. Your masters the Chinese are dumb because by making threatening gestures towards its neighbors it's brought this all on to themselves. They really haven't been smart, if you can think about. But you are a low level worker at a troll farm, and incapable of thinking.

MNDAA are no longer hiding where their allegiance lies.

I have not only heard I have seen them. Chinese have the largest military by man power and the largest navy by number of ships in the world.

Yeah have you ever heard of PPP? Obviously not.

Actually China has the largest military in the world.

I'm just so damn proud of these players performing under these circumstances.

Oh Canada! I am saddened. Former Canadian men's coach John Herdman's who's a mentor and former boss of Priestman also been accused of drone spying: https://www.tsn.ca/canadian-men-s-team-shown-video-of-honduran-practice-during-world-cup-qualifying-source-says-1.2154159

Yeah it is egregious. The original deal was already a sham because for giving up huge swaths of land they are only getting paid $4 per head per year for 1400 people. This is essentially a lease of $5,600 for 100,000 square kilometers of land. Which includes Thunder Bay, North Bay, Sault Ste. Marie and Sudbury. These people were manipulated into giving up their land, and we can't even honor the original scam.

Has Montreal's cityscape changed much? haven't been there in a few years.