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That's interesting, do you have any links to the different factions in the Tat right now?
by throaway1989 2y ago
That's interesting, do you have any links to the different factions in the Tat right now?
- alephnerd 2y agoSadly, not off the top of my head. (Edit: here you go. An overview from 2021 by the Tea Circle group formerly at St Anthony's College, Oxford but now at UToronto Munk - https://teacircleoxford.com/politics/peering-under-the-hood-coup-narratives-and-tatmadaw-factionalism/ https://teacircleoxford.com/politics/peering-under-the-hood-...) A lot of this came up in a meetup I participated in a couple years ago at HKS. But at a high level, you'll see Chinese weapon sales [0] happen at the same time as Indian weapon sales [1] to the Tatmadaw, despite both China and India directly competing with each other. Sadly, Myanmar was always a basket case because the British ignored it when it was British India and later British Burma, so outside the Bamar core, the state never truly existed on the ground. And after the 2020 China-India standoff, Myanmar became even more of a conflict zone because at it's shortest it's a 40 mile buffer zone between Assam and Yunnan. [0] - https://www.reuters.com/world/un-expert-says-russia-china-sending-deadly-aid-myanmars-military-2023-05-17/ https://www.reuters.com/world/un-expert-says-russia-china-se... [1] - https://amp.dw.com/en/how-india-is-supporting-myanmars-military-with-arms/a-65733102 https://amp.dw.com/en/how-india-is-supporting-myanmars-milit...