Junta had been focusing on pushing back against PDF in central and northern Myanmar. KNLA territories are in the south-eastern part of the country.

Suu Kyi is the mortal enemy of the junta, the one they loathe and fear the most because she is the daughter of the father of the Burmese military. China knows this and by them mentioning her in such warm terms soon after the elections the junta held to please China is a flex because it certainly is an irritant to the generals. This statement from China likely prompted the hasty movement of Suu Kyi from prison to “house arrest” in unknown location in Naypyidaw. It shows China is quite confident of its position and standing in Burma. It knows Junta is totally reliant on them. Junta’s battle field successes in the last 6 months can be attributed to Chinese help - China has reigned in the leashes on the powerful ethnic armies it controls - the Wa, the MNDAA, and even the Kachin who doesn’t owe an iota of allegiance to the Chinese whereas the former were founded by China. Having China stop two of the 3 most powerful rebel armies from attacking them, Junta now focuses its resources on other fronts. China helped in the battle field by selling its latest drones to the Junta and with Chinese cyber and AI surveillance Junta has tightened its hold on the civilian population. This military junta stands on its wobbly legs because of China and China knows this.

Xi and China knows well that Suu Kyi is extremely popular in Burma, even amongst different ethnicities. Communist party is well aware of China’s own history of peasant uprisings that toppled dynasties and knows that oppression cannot last long without some appeasement of the peasants. Yes Suu Kyi’s pivot towards China during her tenure plays a part in this but Chinese are not sentimentalists. While Burmese nationalists will point to China’s many centuries-old history of expansionist ambition towards Burma guiding its moves, Chinese Communist Party is more concerned with its own legacy and survival than outward expansion: wealth is disproportionate in China. Land-locked provinces including Yunnan suffer highest poverty rates, so much so that some of its populace had been migrating to Myanmar a poor country before Junta’s coup in search of better life. China wants to open up its poor western frontiers to development while trying to find escape velocity out of the middle-income trap its economy finds itself in. In order to achieve that it needs a stable Burma with a singular regime controlling it to execute its economic plans. A fast high volume trade corridor from Yunnan to Indian ocean through Burma will open up Yunnan and western provinces to large markets they otherwise don’t have easy access: India and South Asia, Middle East, Africa and Europe. Appeasing Burmese populace to some degree releases some pressure from the magma chamber and keep Burma from exploding while allowing it to play every side of Burmese domestic politics.

This is an interesting play by China. It isn’t likey to make junta happy. It certainly is a flex. There are other things at play here.

This likely prompted Junta to move Aung San Suu Kyi to house arrest from jail.

Not a restarting of the war? LMAO this administration thinks we are STUPID.

He’s an asshole self-centered hothead that’s why.

violet08_. Lemmy’s first true social media supersta.

Min Aung Hlaing will seek to portray himself as a religious “king” and protector of Buddhism, in the fashion of ancient Burmese kings.

Well it can’t come fast enough for me.

So we got to wait more than a year or two before we see reasonable RAM prices? smh

“I don’t know, I don’t have a car.”

This killed me. I can literally see her face.

did not realize OP is a lemmy star.

The article is written by someone who got the coolaid explanation from the oil and gas industry. You are NOT using your brain. Have you ever noticed how the fucking oil and gas companies make HUGE profits every time oil prices go up? There’s a lag in the production & distribution chain. They bought oil at lower prices. as the prices go up their profit goes up. They also do certain things called hedging where they pay a financial price for cost certainty. The financial cost of volatility is borne by global investors/hedge funds/gamblers. If you accept their explanation while they shove it up your behind, go ahead and enjoy the reaming.

That’s called marketing excuses. They immediately raise gas prices when the world oil prices go up, but they don’t decrease the prices when the world oil prices go down? That’s BS. I under oil production processing refining and distribution enough to know that COSTS do not IMMEDIATELY move up the chain at the exact same time as world oil prices.

I think this shows the military and junta are feeling more secure about their control of the country.

sorry meant to post this on news.

To back away now would leave Iran as the new hegemon in the region. We would face profound economic and strategic consequences as the petrodollar is rerouted to China, and the Gulf states realign their loyalties, policies and investments.

This would impact us with mounting interest rates, inflation and slower growth. U.S. credibility as an ally and global force would be shattered. Withdrawing from NATO would only deepen the problem.

This war has fucked the US over.

I honestly don’t know what Carney is doing. She is a vaccine skeptic and socially conservative on many issues.

Is the girl in question the one blurred out? And is he not touching her? How is that appropriate? It’s not JUST the inappropriate sexual comment, but also TOUCHING of a minor, during a public meeting.

hope to see them back in my area in the summer.