THE CHINA PROBLEM IN BURMA

October 2024

Fun fact always conveniently forgotten about China (especially by international diplomats and the U.N.): Chinese businesses are stealing from the people of Burma! The military junta - BSPP, SLORC, SPDC, now SAC, is and always has been an armed mafia that seized control of the country in 1962 to take its natural resource wealth. (This is called the "resource curse" - look it up.) The junta's international business partners, who bring the funds needed to exploit the resources, have included Western oil companies (Total, Unocal, Chevron, Premier and others); Western mining companies; Chinese mining companies; and all sorts of Thai companies (PTT …). They have taken the resources and given the junta generals their cut. This is how the regime has funded its repression of the people of Burma. The people of course have received none of the benefits of the resource wealth.

Imagine a rich country. It's run by a gang of mass murderers who work with international corporations to steal everything of value. That's Burma.

The people of Burma owe no allegiance whatsoever to China. It is your oppressor's main partner, not your friend or ally or big brother. If Beijing sends troops, treat them as extensions of your own local tyrants. If you do not, you are no longer an independent nation, you are a colony - of China.

And, when your dictators are defeated and dead, nationalize every single international business in Burma, starting with all the Chinese businesses. Take your money back. They do not have a "right" to access a land corridor to the Indian Ocean. This right of way is another type of resource. Either make them pay a huge sum for it, to you, or deny them the access completely. This would be suitable punishment for what they have done.