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Posted on 07/27/2026 5:31:48 PM PDT by EnderWiggin1970
The Burmese people continue to suffer as the brutal civil war in Myanmar heads toward its sixth year.
The conflict was recently brought home to America with China’s arrest of Min Zin, an American citizen who heads the Institute for Strategy and Policy (ISP)–Myanmar, located in Thailand. Beijing accused him of spying.
China has increasingly close relations with the government in Naypyidaw, highlighted by the June visit to Beijing of Min Aung Hlaing, the commanding general who recently anointed himself Myanmar’s president. China helps Hlaing’s regime survive despite widespread popular opposition.
For decades the borderlands of Myanmar have been aflame, as ethnic minorities fought for the autonomy promised them when the country gained independence after World War II. The Tatmadaw, or military, seized power in 1962 and has ruled the country in varying iterations ever since. In 2021, Hlaing, disappointed by the hybrid civilian-led government’s refusal to make him president, staged a coup, ending Burma’s brief experiment in limited democratic governance.
In response to widespread protests, the regime "instituted curfews and other limitations on gatherings to curb the demonstrations. Doubling down, the military launched violent campaigns across the country, targeting resistance villages, and silencing and torturing dissenters, displacing thousands in the process,” according to the Council on Foreign Relations.
The junta detained tens of thousands of its citizens as the nation quickly returned to civil war, this time across almost the entire country. Most of Burma now lies beyond the Tatmadaw’s control; the regime is secure only in major cities.
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Make no mistake about this whatsoever, the chicoms can’t be trusted at all ever!
Stutter much?
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I guess my finger must have twitched on the copy-paste cycle. My apologies.
If China send in troops to help, it will follow by the annexation of Myanmar along with claims that Myanmar has always been part of China.
I’m leary the chicoms could do anything positive there. I’m leary the chicoms could do anything positive there.
You can say that again! ;-)
Do they still ship heroin out of the ‘Golden Triangle’?
Gonna go get the paper, get the paper
(Myanmar)
It will always be Burma to me
I thought Rambo already took care of that shithole.
Bar B Q Szechuan style
The conflict was recently brought home to America with China’s arrest of Min Zin, an American citizen who heads the Institute for Strategy and Policy (ISP)–Myanmar, located in Thailand. Beijing accused him of spying.
Foreign Ministry spokesperson Lin Jian told a regular news conference that Min Zin had been placed under criminal detention by Chinese authorities on suspicion of engaging in espionage and endangering China’s national security. China has notified the U.S. consulate general in Guangzhou of the arrest, Lin added.
A person with professional ties to ISP-Myanmar, who spoke on condition of anonymity citing the sensitivity of the case, told AFP that Min Zin was arrested on June 3 at Kunming airport in Yunnan province, which shares a border with Myanmar. “He went there to attend a meeting,” said another person close to the detained academic, also speaking anonymously.
According to The Irrawaddy, Min Zin had been invited to attend an event hosted by a Chinese university….
—- Who Is Min Zin? China Detains U.S. Citizen and Myanmar Think Tank Director on Espionage Allegations
By Lakshmi Sankar
June 13, 2026 01:27 +08
U Min Zin :
What Min Zin Has Said on China
Min Zin has written a number of China-related articles for ISP-Myanmar, including on the surge in illegal and unregulated rare earth mining operations that followed the coup.
While China is by far the world’s largest producer of rare earths—a group of 17 minerals critical to technologies ranging from electric vehicle batteries to missile guidance systems—Myanmar ranks among its most important suppliers. The country provided roughly two-thirds of China’s rare earth imports between 2017 and 2024, according to ISP-Myanmar.
ISP-Myanmar has also published articles without an individual byline that examined Beijing’s expanded engagement with Myanmar following its coup, including Chinese priorities such as combating transnational crime along the border and strengthening the New International Land-Sea Trade Corridor—a trade route designed to connect China’s inland provinces with Southeast Asian markets and ports.….
Yes, but the question remains: As Myanmar collapses is it time for China to take the reins as Myanmar collapses?
They’re probably going to try, in order to get the natural resources for next to nothing. They are already there essentially.
Probably why they arrested this U Min Zin guy- the last thing they want is for the country to sell on the open market to competitive bidding, and if a democracy ends up replacing the junta that’s what they will have.
“Min Zin is a Myanmar-born U.S. citizen who co-founded the Institute for Strategy and Policy-Myanmar (ISP-Myanmar) in 2016. “
Min Zin has participated in forums on federalism,etc.
Thank you for the insight but I think we have enough to worry about in this country.
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