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There is no innocence in Myanmar, only degrees of guilt. Not even a joke really. SE Asian cultures believe in collective guilt, guilt by association, so that being from the same ethnic group as the rebels is justification.

Could be wrong, but doesn't sound like Burmese, probably the language of the Chin or Kachin. The issue that the anti-government forces in Myanmar have always had is that they are kind of like the Rebel Alliance in Star Wars, the only thing that unites them is their hatred for the Bamar...

To a degree, but the ngo's are also exactly the type to get involved in a ground war as well. The most likely scenario as far as I see it is: these two aid workers were local Karins recruited due to their contact on the ground, those contacts included members of the Karin rebel group. How it...

Nothing says what these aid workers looked like. What I'm saying is, if they were locals hired by the aid agency, then it makes a lot more sense that they would be killed. The Tatmadaw is usually a lot more savvy than that. Assuming that it's even true. The perspective the media has on...

And a worse expansionism plan. Germany's foreign policy is based on Prussian political thinking, slow and steady, China is trying to do it all in a single generation, and with even less tact.

I used to live in Myanmar, for a time. It's hard to say what it's like now, since it changes so fast there. However, from what I saw in Cambodia, the feelings towards the Chinese among the public are going to be pretty bad. This is important for a few reasons. A lot of minority groups that...