You are keeping up with this, I see.
I did not even know there are “maoist rebels.”
Silly me, what are they rebelling against?:)
Here is a quote from Victor Davis Hanson:
“The fact that in the Bush years we were increasingly disliked by Ahmadinejad, Assad, Castro, Chávez, Kim Jong Il, Morales, Ortega, and Putin, may in retrospect seem logical, just as their current warming to the U.S. may prove to be cause for alarm, given the repugnant nature of these strongmen.”
You know the answer.
They are rebelling against freedom/autonomy