Makes me go, 'hmmmm'
Yes, this is the winning strategy that nations on the margins settled on during the first cold war. A policy of dual-alignment, flirting with both superpowers to extract concessions and offers. The powers in Myanmar have made it clear they don't want to be in China's sphere, unless of course China has a really great offer. It works great as long as the superpowers don't get so riled up you become a stage for a proxy war.
Which in turn ruins their taiwan strategy because the US won’t even lift a finger to help taiwan but race to the malaccans to blockade chinese oil shipments.
Wut
The Myanmar protesters aren't waving enough British and American flags to get mainstream attention
They don't have enough quotable memeworthy signs that are mysteriously all in English
They are largely in English though, and there is meme stuff and US flags. I remember there being people asserting that it was a colour revolution because of it fairly recently.
Myanmar did get a lot of coverage when the coup happened, but it has declined since then. With anything involving China, the propaganda machine churns content constantly.
this sucks for the Myanmar people, their army has couped the government repeatedly but this might be the bloodiest coup yet. If your own army is shooting unarmed protesters it's time to head for the mountains and form a Maoist guerilla organization
No no, there's no corporation in Myanmar that owns game publishers and developers, so they don't care about Myanmar.
The US only cares about human rights when it gives us an excuse to commit some other worse atrocity to the benefit of our genocidal empire.
I saw some rumblings going on in r*ddit. I still have no idea what’s going on over there.
I still have no idea what’s going on over there
A month ago the military lost massively in the elections and demanded that the voting commission reject the election as rigged. The commission instead declared it was a fair election. So the military, still insisting they lost because of fraud, did a coup, arrested Aung San Suu Kyi*, and have killed protesters almost daily since, up to 40/day. They've since said they'll hold new much fairer and better elections in a year.
The US and EU denounced the coup and threatened huge sanctions, but have only enacted a few targetted against some generals. China waited a while before offering muted criticism of the military, true to their policy of non-interference. SE Asian states like Malaysia have attempted diplomatic pressure to reinstate the election results.
*they've charged her with about 6 random charges, including smuggling radios. Just anything they can think of.
/r/publicfreakout tends to be the main source of warcrime videos coming from the coup.
