56 is by official Chinese count. There are many, MANY more. China doesn’t recognize them.

This is pretty bonkers. How TF are they fabricating answers???

That’s what it is. It is the purposeful drive to homogenize Chinese empire under Han culture and language and erase the existence of other races their culture identity and history.

What a fucking MORON!!!

“It is not very unreasonable that the rich should contribute to the public expense, not only in proportion to their revenue, but something more than in that proportion,” Smith writes in the 1,000-page-plus tome, which draws on everything from ​grape-growing to pin factories. “No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable,” he says in one of his best-known quotes.

“It is not very unreasonable that the rich should contribute to the public expense, not only in proportion to their revenue, but something more than in that proportion,” Smith writes in the 1,000-page-plus tome, which draws on everything from ​grape-growing to pin factories. “No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable,” he says in one of his best-known quotes.

This is an extremely interesting development. The military had moved much of its arms factories to the west of Irrawady river to keep them safe as western Burma had been mostly quiet and armed militias there had been relatively weak compared to those in the eastern borders which Burma share with China and Thailand a key US ally.

Arakan Army arose from the increased rohingya rebel activity in the state of Arakan and the military’s response to the rohingya rebels in 2017 and subsequent years. Led by a young charismatic leader AA’s rapid success has far exceeded that of any ethnic rebel group in recent years and even recent decades. Their success is all the more surprising as they lack the two traditional keys that’s been the backbone of success for other ethnic rebel armies: funding from illicit drug trade and active support and backing of China.

Well I think after this story gets out, people aren’t going to be looking to buy lakefront properties there unless legislation changes. Who wants to be on the hook for 300-500k expense or more for some archaeological dig? This should tank the property values of the entire region.

Well yes you can when you become an Iranian citizen. How about the Donnie boy?

This is the 3rd iteration of the Communist Party of Burma, formed by China. The first one was indigenous formed during British colonial times. The 2nd iteration occured when the aging founders of CPB disbanded and China created a new CPB with ethnic minorities living on the Chinese border armed and trained them, and sent them into Burma. The 2nd iteration disbanded into powerful ethnic armies pursuing their own self-interests after decades of getting fat off opium trade: Wa State Army, MNDAA amongst others, back in 1989. Curiously, this third iteration of the communist party of Burma didn’t happen until after the coup in 2021.

The article is wrong. He got the uranium from mines in Burma. He was trying to sell it elsewhere. It’s the same area where the ethnic rebels are mining rare earths.

Out of curiousity I searched for the number of Burmese students in UK. What I found was the most recent data in 2023 says there were 17,000 Burmese students studying overseas. Most of them were in Thailand and Singapore. Some less than 2000 were in US. UK would be less than half that I would guess. Given the expense to send students to study in UK these are likely the children of the military junta, cronies and the children of the top officials of the various militias and their cronies, and not the ordinary or average Burmese. In that sense, I am not displeased their grift-enriched lives are slightly inconvenienced.

I’m sure he’s now in some mile-deep bunker.

Is that the regime change Trump and Netanyahoo wanted?

Why wouldn’t this be treason?

I would hope they would have a reservoir to cool the hot water before dumping it back into a river. I can’t imagine hot water being healthy for life in the river.

Yes it does. For instance Taiwan had a huge growth (6%+) fuelled by AI.

This is interesting. Trump is indirectly validating Obama.

Uninstalling Brave.

Yeah. Imagine how bad the real numbers are. I’m sure we will be getting revisions 4 years from now for Trump era figures lol.