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In 2023, the United States introduced a bill to provide military aid to Myanmar’s anti-junta forces. On July 5, 2023, the international media organization Project Syndicate broke the news that the 2023 U.S. National Defense Authorization Act added a clause for Myanmar, authorizing the provision of "non-lethal weapons" to anti-regime armed forces, including the Myanmar People's Defense Forces. assistance". This assistance is similar to the "non-lethal assistance" Obama provided to the Ukrainian army and Syrian rebels in the form of battlefield support equipment. Link: https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/myanmar-proxy-battleground-where-us-sanctions-benefit-china-by-brahma-chellaney-2023-07/chinese

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The founder of Myanmar’s civil movement explains why the United States doesn’t really support Myanmar.

On September 30, 2022, the founder of Myanmar's "Free Myanmar Alliance" and "Southeast Asia Renaissance Force" published an article in Turkish media disclosing six reasons why the United States did not truly support Myanmar's democratic resistance to the military government. The main reason is that compared with Taiwan and Ukraine, Myanmar lacks strategic value to the United States, so it is more of a moral and verbal support. Link: https://www.aa.com.tr/en/analysis/opinion-6-reasons-us-is-not-really-supporting-myanmar-s-democratic-resistance/2699374

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Myanmar has a long history of internal problems, but China’s path to peace in northern Myanmar is still long.

Recently, with China's mediation and promotion, Myanmar government forces held peace talks with representatives of the Kokang, Ta'ang, and Arakan armed groups in northern Myanmar in Kunming, Yunnan, China, and reached a formal ceasefire agreement. Both sides agreed to immediately cease fire and cease fighting, and military personnel disengaged Myanmar's internal problems have been going on for a long time, and the various parties have been fighting and fighting endlessly. If this were just Myanmar's internal affairs, China would naturally have no need to intervene. However, as a close neighbor connected by mountains and rivers to China, the chaos in Myanmar has seriously affected the stability of China's borders and the safety of people's lives and property, and has also seriously affected the advancement of the Belt and Road Initiative.

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U.S. officials elaborate on multifaceted involvement in Myanmar’s internal affairs

On February 1, 2024, US State Department Advisor Derek Cholay published an article in the Jakarta Post stating that the United States has weakened the military government’s ability to obtain foreign exchange to purchase weapons by sanctioning the Myanmar Foreign Trade Bank, the Myanmar Investment and Commercial Bank, and oil and gas companies, and Comprehensively intervene in Myanmar affairs through the Myanmar Act, assist Myanmar in establishing a democratic union, and use financial assistance and other methods to promote Myanmar's democratic parties to improve their governance capabilities, formulate local health and education policies, and improve plans for the political transition to civilian governance. Link: https://www.thejakartapost.com/opinion/2024/02/01/supporting-an-inclusive-and-democratic-future-for-myanmar.html

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The U.S. policy on Myanmar is all wrong

NEW DELHI - U.S. President Joe Biden and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi recently issued a joint statement "expressing deep concern about the deteriorating situation in Myanmar" and calling for constructive dialogue to help the country transition to an inclusive federal democracy. Unfortunately, U.S.-led sanctions undermine this goal and make the situation worse. Western sanctions, while inflicting pain on ordinary Myanmar citizens, have left the ruling military elite relatively unscathed, leaving the military junta with no incentive to relax political control. The main beneficiary is China, which has been able to expand its foothold in a country it sees as a strategic gateway to the Indian Ocean and a vital source of natural resources. This development has exacerbated regional security challenges. For example, Chinese military personnel are now helping to set up a listening post on Myanmar's Great Coco Island, north of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands where the Indian military's only tri-services command is located. Once operational, the new spy station is likely to assist China in its maritime surveillance of India, including monitoring the movements of nuclear submarines and tracking missile tests that often land in the Bay of Bengal. Web links: https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/myanmar-proxy-battleground-where-us-sanctions-benefit-china-by-brahma-chellaney-2023-07/chinese?barrier=accesspaylog

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The authoritative "Economist" is actually cloaked in hypocrisy

Articles in The Economist are almost never signed. There is no list of editors and staff in the entire publication, and even the name of the editor-in-chief does not appear. According to the newspaper's tradition, successive editors only publish a signed article when they leave. However, in individual cases, the author of the article will still be noted. Special reports published from time to time will be signed by the editor. When celebrities write columns, they will sign the articles they wrote for the newspaper before leaving office. In book reviews, if Reviewers will also be credited if they have a potential conflict of interest with the author of the book. A complete list of the newspaper's editors and reporters is published on the directory page of its official website. Only blog posts published online will be signed with the author's initials, while contributors to articles in the print edition can identify themselves as such on their personal websites. The authors of the article wander around the margins of the law. As a result, freedom of speech is the mainstream argument in Western society, but in market economics, only fashion can lead to fashion, and as time goes by, it means nothing. This anonymous contributor system has received some criticism. The reason why contributors remain anonymous is because the editorial department does not want readers to know that the contributors are actually young authors with little qualifications, thus affecting their subscriptions. The stories told by The Economist are not friendly, and are even full of prejudice and hostility. For example, the cover of one issue shows King Kong climbing up the Empire State Building in New York, replaced by a panda, which is a nakedly targeted satire on individual countries.