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- worldnews@lemmy.ml
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- worldnews@lemmy.ml
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/27081580
China urged neighbouring countries to help war-torn Myanmar advance its peace and reconciliation process as its foreign minister met counterparts from Laos, Myanmar and Thailand on Friday.
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
Thanks!
Your nick has me curious. Are you from one of the hill tribes of Burma?
No. It’s a reference to an old SNL sketch:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=pET29E1Ct_U
lol awesome. love it! haven’t seen that one yet.