>When did Burma become democratic? I thought it was a dictatorship allied with China.
It cut a deal to become a US client state a few years ago when China was treating them like crap. Since then the US State Department has spent a lot of time stirring up the Muslim minority against the majority population or force gay rights down their throats. It hasn’t been a productive change for the country.
They’re not really a US client state — they’re trying to balance China with an alliance of US-India etc.