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2015-03-20 China-Japan-Koreas

Burma's Nasty Little War on China's Border: The View from the Front

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Posted by Besoeker 2015-03-20 00:00|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 * MANILA TIMES > BORDER CONFLICT UNLIKELY TO MOVE CHINA TO DO A "UKRAINE" IN MYANMAR.

Never say never iff the Hard Boyz start destabilizing India andor Se Asia.

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* ABC-CBN NEWS > US SENATORS SEEK US STRATEGY TO STOP CHINESE SOUTH CHINA SEA RECLAMATIONS.

The Fed must mean STRATEGEERY???

China's moves in SCS posing DIRECT CHALLENGE to US + UNCLOS + International Community.

* HBARAT RAKSHAK > PHILIPPINES UNCOVERS NEW CHINESE CONTRUCTION IN SPRATLEYS - NIKKEI ASIAN REVIEW.

* GMA NEWS > CHINESE FORCES MAY STAY IN WEST PH SEA STRUCTURES, PH LAWMAKER WARNS.

* TOPIX > RESURGENT CHINESE INTEREST IN KRA CANAL PROJECT ACROSS SOUTHERN THAILAND MAY THREATEN MYANMAR'S DAWEI PROJECT.

* SAME > CHANGING THE TALIBAN? PRO-ISIS [ISLAMIC STATE-leaning] MILITANT FACTIONS [AFPAK] COULD ALTER LANDSCAPE OF ASIAN INSURGENCIES.

* DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > POSTER THREAD: US WILL LOSE INFLUENCE IN ASIA IFF VIETNAM IS UNABLE TO KEEP PRESENCE IN SOUTH CHINA SEA.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2015-03-20 01:07|| 2015-03-20 01:07|| Front Page Top

#2 Can Russia still hold the Russian Far East iff Radical Islam's Hard Boyz do indeed strike at Russia's ex-SSR Central Asia -Stans, + ultimately Central-Middle Russia itself???

Above also read, CHINA + PLA???

Posted by JosephMendiola 2015-03-20 01:29|| 2015-03-20 01:29|| Front Page Top

#3 The PLA maybe huge but it is poorly equipped and even more poorly lead. The Vietnamese gave em a bloody nose back in the 80's. Now the Burmese wont put up with their shit. Don't know about Laos but I think the other SE Asian countries would come to their support. If the PLA ever tried to take on India they would be slaughtered. Same for Taiwan. Their only play is south into the South China Sea, short term, or north to Siberia, long term. They will be seriously challenged if they go into the south. My take is they will wait for demographics to decimate and depopulate the Russians and head north into Siberia, bout 20 years from now.

Posted by Albert Thravins4110 2015-03-20 02:41|| 2015-03-20 02:41|| Front Page Top

#4 I didn't get that from the article, will reread.

Posted by Shipman 2015-03-20 09:38|| 2015-03-20 09:38|| Front Page Top

#5 Nothing to do with the PLA's effectiveness. This is the more likely explanation:

The faction of the MNDAA that is battling the Burmese army is nominally led by Peng Jiasheng, also known as Pheung Kya Shin, an octogenarian and ethnically Chinese commander who maintains about 1,000 troops... They were formerly part of the Communist Party of Burma, which was supported by Beijing... Peng’s faction of the MNDAA was defeated and scattered, and he allegedly went into exile in China...The border between China and Burma is porous. Many ethnic Han-Chinese families have members on both sides of the border, and cross-border trade is common. Chinese influence can be seen everywhere in Burmese border towns

Factor in the Chinese' government's ineffectiveness in the region, and one gets a pretty good picture.

Posted by Pappy 2015-03-20 11:54|| 2015-03-20 11:54|| Front Page Top

#6 Sounds like old-school war-lordary.

Posted by Shipman 2015-03-20 18:35|| 2015-03-20 18:35|| Front Page Top

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