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.

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Excelente explanation, thanks