US-China Frenemy Relationship. Proxy War in Southeast Asia. Déjà vu Edition.

[evildevil]

Myanmar morphs to US-China battlefieldA new reality is emerging amid all the hype about Myanmar's democratization process and moves to liberalize its political landscape. Myanmar's drift away from a tight relationship with China towards closer links with the West is signaling the emergence of a new focal point of confrontation in Asia, one where

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[underlankers]

Oh, dear. It seems that the USA is once again backing a small dictatorship against a big one and calling it freedom.

[strixluna]

Oh look, it's even on the same frakkin' peninsula as Vietnam. There's a phrase in here about people needing to learn their history lest they repeat it or something.

[nesmith]

Hell, we didn't learn it after both Korea AND after France told us not to fuck with the Vietnamese.