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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.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (5 children)

Can you recommend any further reading?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (4 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 weeks ago

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

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