Why Myanmar's Civil War is Bad News for China

[@bluedragontoybash2463]

summary of this video 1. China has been a key ally for Myanmar's military regime since the 2021 coup. 2. The ongoing Civil War in Myanmar, especially near the China-Myanmar border, poses security challenges for China. 3. The Brotherhood Alliance, a coalition of ethnic armed organizations, launched Operation 1027 against the military regime. 4. China, concerned about security, urged a ceasefire in Northern Myanmar to protect its economic interests. 5. Myanmar is crucial for China's economic and trade links, with projects like the China-Myanmar Economic Corridor and pipelines for oil and gas imports. 6. Online scams and fraud originating from Myanmar, especially in Shan State, have been a significant concern for China. 7. China pressured Myanmar's military junta to address these scam operations, but with limited success. 8. The Brotherhood Alliance's commitment to tackling fraud operations may have garnered tacit approval from China. 9. China's support for Myanmar's military regime is conditional, with a focus on protecting its interests in stability, security, and economic cooperation. 10. If China perceives the military regime as no longer beneficial for its goals, it might reconsider its support, potentially impacting Myanmar's military.

[@josephd.3654]

Very straight to the point, thank you for the summary

[@geronimo8159]

I think you forgot to mention that the anchor also uses exclusively phone and laptop cases from... *BELLROY* !!!!

[@DZstudios.]

TLDW of tldr

[@TheCertifiedLegend]

​@@geronimo8159lmao

[@OGruurd]

You're good!

[@simonb4689]

It's so sad for the people in Myanmar. It is such an amazing place with the kindest, most amazing people. And the food is terrific.

[@wzvy]

I got robbed there 😢

[@Trump2024asw]

How's the average person's English? Good enough to work with in flied?

[@Morrocan_dna]

Nah people their aren’t kind at all they hate islam

[@scemmerjoke]

​@@Trump2024aswdepends highly on where you work. Most people have worse than A1 English.

[@tatsueureka392]

Are you trying to hire people from there? @@Trump2024asw

[@doubleblocks3446]

I'm glad to see Myanmar's situation being uncovered. Edit: Chinese bots be craving for their Social Credits in the replies

[@soccerguy325]

Lol Myanmar's "situation" (i.e. genocide) has been "uncovered" since 2017.

[@CorePathway]

So many tragedies I cannot effect change upon, so little time😂

[@remogatron1010]

Nobody cares about Syria either. Russians been doing war crimes there for years too. But hey, ONLY the Palestinians are important.

[@spy_balloon]

Here 1$ mr mob😂

[@yuan6478]

This is fake news though 😂

[@draroking]

I love that the fitness video has become representative of the Myanmar Coup

[@Mhark127]

Me too.😁

[@liamp487]

@@Mhark127 #

[@Kelpie-sb5bi]

It’s dark but really funny

[@dhl567]

How can people not tell it's all staged?

[@trk3707]

@@dhl567what do you mean by staged? the coup or a fitness video? I'm not sure.

[@bikkiikun]

Never forget: Countries have no friends. Countries have interests.

[@okwatever3582]

Indeed, In realism theory, countries are only based upon interests from one another. Todays enemy might become tomorrow’s friends, and vice versa.

[@varsoo1]

Not really true, see Turkey and Azerbaijan and Hungary and Poland working together despite very clear difference in interests both politically and geopolitically... Poland is still protecting Hungary even though they are deeply pro-Russian while 99% of Poland's population would press a button to nuke Russia with a grin on their face, and same for Hungary protecting Poland in the EU with veto powers when Hungary is losing EU money because of it. Turkey is drilling down on Israel being immoral during the Gaza war while Azerbaijan is buying billions of military equipment from Israel at the same time. One can argue US-Israel is another example of a clearly one-sided interest

[@captain_noodles]

Britain and Portugal may disagree

[@bikkiikun]

@@captain_noodles: And their "friendship" was sooo great that during "the darkest hour" Portugal stayed neutral. ...the reality remains, Countries have no friends, only interests.

[@Matteus2109]

Little countries have friends. Big countries have interests.

[@matheo4934]

People of Myanmar will win.

[@maxgronros6728]

The girl dancing in front of the coup is both extremly funny and really sad. Basicly summed up the beginning of the decade, coups and tiktok dances

[@PeterSedesse]

That aerobics lady accidentally filming the coup event is just hilarious.

[@dhl567]

How Westerners think the footage was accidentally captured is beyond me

[@trk3707]

As someone who was born and raised in Myanmar but lives abroad, it’s really sad to see all this happening back in the country as hundreds of thousands of innocent civilians are dying as a result of the Junta's mass shelling and air assault across the country's ethnic regions. Thank you for covering the ongoing conflict in Myanmar. I expect to see more videos of the conflict in Myanmar as it’s ongoing.

[@ShanI3lade]

I think this was a great report. However, after watching this i do not think that the title is fitting for it's content. It doesnt seem from the reporting that the current trajectory of the war is bad for China.

[@hyonzui]

its click bait

[@dengist8172]

Not at all. They failed to mention that the main force in the 3-party brotherhood alliance is an ethnic Chinese group very close to the CCP

[@beepboopbeepp]

Their titles have been like this for a long time now good journalism but clickbait to get more people looking

[@joetrump2983]

​@@hyonzui listening to westards talking about china logic is like CCP bots talking about Japan

[@puraLusa]

​@@dengist8172it doesn't say much - viercongs were ccp aligned and that didn't stop china atempt to invade.

[@hwp115]

Thanks a lot for covering about Myanmar.

[@bouffon1]

It's not often that Myanmar gets attention. There is, of course, a lot more to it than can be explained in a short video clip. Huge, as yet unexploited, deposits of oil and gas, minerals and gems are to be had in Myanmar and many are vying for them including Western entities.

[@nanucit]

Yeh, sure, western bad regurgitation at its best 😂

[@marcbuisson2463]

You'll pardon us, but currently, we tend to focuse way way more on our own ressources than anything else. No problems if China wanna take our places though, it's not as if these minearl ressources were used in deindustrialised countries anyway.

[@excentrik5725]

Where are all the leftists who cannot shut up about how much they are concerned about victims in Ukraine and Israel? Where are they to talk about victims in Myanmar?

[@seanphurley]

@@nanucit it is simultaniously bad and innocuous. Yes western entities will go into dangerous areas and extract 75% of the value, instead of say the 25% take in safe stable economies. This can seem unfair to the developing nation but gets better as reliability is established. It can be very mutually beneficial if not spent on corruption or say civil war. On the other hand, such deals occur between the largest nations and dictators all the time. Take the top of mind example of Equatorial Guinea. Incredibly wealthy in natural resources, brutal dictatorship that is supported almost entirely by western oil money. Natural resources taken at discount. The residents in this scenario are doubly screwed. On the other other hand: if the western companies werent there, the chinese or russians would be. I dont have time to go into more nuance or speak about solutions but OP point can be valid depending on historical context, which I do not know well enough for Myanmar.

[@Flipflopflopper]

What western entities?

[@zonghuahong2476]

Fun facts: 1. Factions of rebelling forces on north have been long existing for decades but some how of sudden those guerrilla forces come out from jungles winning the battles against the military junta one after another, using drones and other advanced weaponry in fighting. 2. One of the main reasons claimed by rebelling forces for launching the military operation 1027 is to strike criminals of telecom scams, mainly against Chinese citizens implicating billions of dollars and hundreds of being tortured and murdered, under the protection of the military junta. 3. The rebelling ethnics in north, they speak Chinese.

[@prohacker5086]

whats the number of those that are in north? Do they constitude a majority?

[@yaooooo846]

@@prohacker5086 depends on which part you're talking about. The kokang region in Shan are mostly Chinese ppl in Myanmar

[@yaooooo846]

@@prohacker5086 its also funny how the kokang rebels are directly supplied and trained by ccp and this fact is completely ignored by most western medias

[@prohacker5086]

@@yaooooo846 seems like china would be able to gain its access to the sea if it gets control of just tibeo-burmese parts.

[@mrrolandlawrence]

​@@prohacker5086 yeh it does look that way. I wonder if their leadership is aware of that fact.

[@dannyjarratt5414]

Thanks for keeping up with your coverage.

[@msl2299]

Staying hopeful for better future of people of Myanmar.

[@donaldlee8249]

Huge part of Northern Myanmar is basically China, people there speak Chinese(Yunnan Dialect), use Chinese Yuan, get their electricity exclusively from China, use China’s state owned cellular service, use Chinese textbooks, practice Chinese folk religion instead of Theravāda Buddhism, construct their government mimicking China’s, etc.

[@rainboworiental9521]

Yach, Wa state, or the First autonomous region of Shan state, is the most powerful ethnic army in Myanmar and was derived from the Myanmar communist party.

[@Flipflopflopper]

Whenever China calls anything a “dialect” what they mean is a separate language. French and Italian are often more closely related then Chinese dialects are to mandarin

[@nfuryboss]

It's basically a China satellite state under the hood. Won't be surprised if, in the future, China takes a page from Putin's playbook in Ukraine and launches a special military operation into Northern Myanmar. If that happened,, then subsequently annex it under the pretext that Northern Myanmar voted to join China in similar moves akin to Donetsk and Luhansk in Ukraine.

[@user-jt3dw6vv4x]

You seem to be talking about Wa State but Wa people mostly practice Theravada Buddhism and speak the Wa language (an Austroasiatic language) unless you're talking about another region of Myanmar.

[@rainboworiental9521]

@@user-jt3dw6vv4x But nearly all major leaders of Wa state and United Wa State Army are Ethnic Han and probably can't even speak Wa language fluently (Such as Bao Youxiang (president and military leader)and Xiao Mingliang (second leader and borned and studyed in Yunnan Province)). Chinese is compulsory cource in the school of Wa state in past 3 dacades and citizen of Wa must need preficient Chinese to get a decent job in state governmeny, ruling party, and military (even government documents mostly writting in Chinese and Mandarain is the working language in government and business circle)

[@khansteven8969]

Wow, you know a lot about our country. Thanks bro.

[@krissbean8969]

Thank you for paying attention on our country, please expose our country's real situation to know all around the world, so that, could help us those humanitarian peoples of all around the world

[@gspam795]

The problem in Myanmar is also overflowing in neighboring areas in India. The has been influx of refugees into Mizoram and Manipur. This ia also causing ethnic violence in Manipur where the insurgents from Myanmar has been fueling the violence.

[@theconqueringram5295]

I am no Myanmar military historian, but I do know that for years the Tatmadaw was considered one of Southeast Asia's finest military organizations. However, since the coup in 2021, morale for soldiers have declined sharply. The Tatmadaw has struggled to fight the rebel groups and they're lost many townships.

[@silversay5281]

The tatmadaw has been terrorising the ethnic group for many years which makes it the longest civil war, before the 2021 coup start. My people (KAREN) been fighting, still fighting for our freedom.

[@PeterXiao1]

The military has terrorized the ethnic groups for decades, with implicit support of the Burmanese majority because of Burmanese chauvinism

[@marybailey7881]

Why is Xi in San Francisco shaking hands with the people likely behind this military rebellion? Why he doesn't come to the aid of the Myanmar military ?

[@hlaminkhant8268]

They are freedom fighters please do not labled them rebels.

[@tinthaung7118]

Military was a big big rebel for so long since 1960. They interchanged civil cloths n military uniforms back n forth tricking to showcase or manipulated the fake elections again n again on world’s stage. They were the rebels from the start, they betrayed shamelessly n lied to the democratic gov: again n again. Never wanted to transfer the power back to civilian gov:.Power hungry money hungry greedy rebel ruthless military. Civilian gov:s suffered under dishonest rebellious military for so long. People were fed up. So don’t call the freedom fighters “ rebels .“ The truth is other way around. 😡

[@NoHairMan]

Thank you for reporting on this.

[@whokilledmax]

As a Chinese, I don't care who of you is in power. We just want stability as soon as possible. In fact, the first country that Aung San Suu Kyi's government visits is China. China hopes to see a prosperous Myanmar and no more chaos.

[@Govvy]

Sounds like China might prefer a democratic Myanmar, they would be easier to deal with in the short to mid term for them.

[@dejannincic9671]

They dont realy care as long as they get to earn money

[@tranquoccuong890-its-orge]

china's best interest is perhaps a neutral or non-western-aligned government in myanmar, with stable politics and no ethnic war which then china could cooperate to become its gateway to the indian ocean

[@bl5608]

China will support whoever is in charge at the border checkpoints.

[@beepboopbeepp]

China has always been business minded, they don’t really interfere and focus mainly on trade.

[@bl5608]

@@tranquoccuong890-its-orge china doesn't care what government system myanmar use. It can be communist today, democratic next month, socialist next year. China can work with anyone. Big or small country, Friends or enemies, rich or poor country.

[@dengist8172]

You are terribly wrong about China's role in the conflict. China always bets on both sides. Aung San Suu Kyi had a very good relationship with China. The main force of the brotherhood alliance, the National Democratic Alliance Army, is literally ethnic Chinese. They organized themselves in the same structure as the CCP and have extensive propaganda organs on Chinese social media (implies that they are allowed by the CCP)

[@HugoTheComradSkeltal]

To add to this China’s foreign policy comes down to two things, neutrality and upholding current borders and states. China didn’t become an “ally” of the military junta as TLDR tried to frame it. Rather, they kept the same type of relation to it as it did with the previous government. Also if you are referring to the Communist party of China its abbreviation is “CPC” not “CCP”

[@FATHOLLYWOODB123]

How is communism working Hugo? Just to let you know, I wouldn't call annexing islands belong to surrounding nations in the South China Sea, or the slow annexation of Indian territory as "upholding current borders"@@HugoTheComradSkeltal

[@HugoTheComradSkeltal]

@@FATHOLLYWOODB123 Well first of I was just explaining how China’s foreign policy usually works (a policy I am very critical of). Secondly China is far from a communist society. At best it is on a path towards socialism. Don’t get me wrong it certainly has made great achievements domestically but not without some problems. And sure I agree, I don’t like what China has been doing in the South China Sea either. It undermines the sovereignty of other peoples. And I actually brought up the idea that China upholds borders and states as a criticism. Because it undermines the fight for national liberation world wide and inside its own country. It also undermines communist groups in other nations like India and the Philippines.

[@bbrmb2020]

The West narrative is not working well this time 😂

[@TMsonjakopp7006]

⁠​⁠@@HugoTheComradSkeltalccp is just chineses communist party

[@nazamroth8427]

"[...] is a key transport *artillery* [...]" Am I imagining things, or are they now trading with high caliber delivery devices?

[@randomperson6988]

lmao, you’ve heard of America supporting dictators out of national interest. Imagine China supporting democracies out of national interest

[@njmeteor]

The world needs to wake up and see that 99% of the time ideology is NOT what drives the decisions of ruling elites (no matter their stripes) lol.

[@asscheeks3212]

Ironically, China did fund Monarchists against Maoists in Napal. Which is confusing

[@evystts]

In fact, I believe that neither China nor the United States cares about what kind of political system this country adopts. As long as it is stable, tradable, and doesn't cause any trouble, it doesn't matter

[@user-jt3dw6vv4x]

Exactly and it's funny seeing all the Chinese nationalists in the comment acting all benevolent as a result of it. They only care about the money.

[@紫萱-h2i]

​@@asscheeks3212I don’t know what evidence you have to prove that what you say is true. If you don’t have real evidence, please don’t speak nonsense.

[@jonnelacecodog3490]

I guess internal conflict in Myanmar makes it the 4th worst country to live in Asia after Yemen, Afghanistan and North Korea.

[@yaroslavkobezskyi]

You forgot Turkmenistan

[@jonnelacecodog3490]

@@yaroslavkobezskyi Turkmenistan, Syria, Iraq and Cambodia are behind these 4

[@GaionSputro]

​@@yaroslavkobezskyi Ah yes, North Korea 2.0

[@muhammadhabibieamiro3639]

Thank you for this news

[@Mattattaxk]

How long till China takes over Myanmar? People will think this idea is ridiculous but Myanmar gives them a lifeline for trade to the Indian Ocean and skipping the American Australian naval blockades if war breaks out in the Pacific.

[@gp-1542]

0:03 still can’t believe that this is how people knew things were about to hit the fan

[@MegaSavvis]

Is it just me or whenever they say you can find one of their videos linked in the description, the link is never there?

[@chickfila7nugget]

i have a suggestion you could make a brand new channel about the history of governments in certain states/country (like Myanmar or China) I'm tried of hearing the same thing over and over again if new viewers don't have any idea abt it, u can just direct them to ur history channel

[@rikstan15]

You said "online scams" and I thought it was an ad read 😂

[@dcc70]

I wouldn't be shocked if China played a role in the success of the ethnic rebels in Myanmar. Facing internal and external issues, China's increasing demands for concessions on the Myanmar government have not been sufficiently met. Threats of overturning the regime became reality. Other Internet sources report the rebels' weapons were upgraded with PLA equipment.

[@rainboworiental9521]

I guess this weapon could directly come from the United Wa State Army, the most powerful ethnic militia (around 20000 to 60000 manpower) in Myanmar and very closely tied with China. But China probably give Wa state tacit approval to transfer these weapons.

[@poonabsidhikveryindian]

Yeah because those ethnic rebels in Shan, Kachin and Kokang are the same ethnic groups as those in Yunnan. They see each others as brothers and the border is porous. They've been the natives in the region. If China opposes those ethnic groups, then the local communities in China wont be happy obviously. Its really the same situation in India. Look up the history further South of Kayin states as well, those guys have been cruelly persecuted by the Burmese ever since British left and even before. Actually, having an unstable neighbor like Myanmar blows. Dont have much love for the Buddhist Burmese majority and junta who they formerly supported, since they are awful, opportunistic and cunning people.

[@merrick6484]

Do you really think CCP is scare of its ethnic groups in Yungnun? Or other way around?😂 Do you really think CCP need assistance from Three brotherhood alliance? Or other way around? China can make their livilihood in hells if CCP acts on it. Do you really think CCP needs Junta? Or other way around? Why do you think rebels are winning all the way? Do you know what the rebel operation 1027 means? Why 1027? Not any other number? 😂 In short, China is answer to every question.

[@sdesigan85]

3:43 'Key transport artillery' is the freudian slip we do not deserve, but one we can all relate to right now in 2023 :')

[@perla5465]

Poor Myanmar I hope their people are ok.

[@mamanbae3885]

This pattern is similar to what happened in Indonesia in the 60s, there is one thing in common, namely the military movement. There is definitely Chinese influence in the current military government.

[@roockieroad]

Again, thank you for covering this topic.

[@ParagonsDimension]

Spread the word! #JUSTICEFORMYANMAR

[@TKUA11]

Imagine that, sponsoring dictatorships is not good for business. Chiba needs to figure out that democracy is the only way to achieve long term financial stability

[@AdrielSjahfiedin]

I totally forgot about the lady who danced during the coup 😂 she didn’t know she was recording history.

[@jasonyang9721]

more converage pls! im a westerner living in china, the social media and atmosphere is very supportive of 10/27. very interesting, i think china actually supports the brotherhood 联盟 and want a regime change

[@jasonyang9721]

four undercover chinese cops were buried alive by the myanmar scam groups, which are backed bt the myanmar govt. made lots of news in china,please cover this

[@zinny999]

Interesting, US been utterly useless in trying to push democracy 😅

[@poonabsidhikveryindian]

You should check the social media posts way before the coup, before Aung Sang Su Kyi was released and rose to power. At that time, Myanmar army was attacking ethnic groups, and China was housing many refugees from Kachin, Kokang, etc. At that time, the Myanmar military hypocritically blamed the northern ethnic groups of poppy farming. Chinese people were way more sympathetic to ordinary Myanmar people before they revealed their true colors and blamed China for everything while ignoring much bigger culprits that actually were junta allies. Chinese especially in the border towns are still sympathetic of their ethnic brothers. Personally, I sympathise with the ethnic minorities but for the Buddhist Bamar Southeast Asian majority, I'm not fond of. Hope they learn to respect different religions and people, and hope they remember to thank the ethnic groups fighting for their freedom.

[@sagiri-yui]

Truth

[@ycplum7062]

It may be disruptive for the short term, but I think it will strengthen China's influence in the long term by reinforcing and enhancing their power broker status.

[@jxmai7687]

This video is full of shit, he is not a Chinese expert😂

[@emailtat5860]

Good for WHO ?

[@zabooza74]

Yeah a divided country is a country easier to invade and install a puppet governement in...

[@affhb8205]

here is someone knows half of the truth speaking confidently and didn't know how far he is away from the truth

[@marybailey7881]

Why is Xi in San Francisco shaking hands with the people likely behind this military rebellion? Why he doesn't come to the aid of the Myanmar military ?

[@parametr]

Involuntarily capturing a coup d'etat while trying to record a fitness video. She'll be forever inmortal and part of history, doing the silly dance. What a time to be alive.

[@demeritfc3655]

One of the defining videos of the decade I think.

[@pahram]

Thanks for what you doing

[@awaiskhan9329]

They forgot Rohengyas

[@willemvanriet7160]

All around the world autocrats have to learn the hard way that people will settle for nothing less than freedom

[@monsieurdorgat6864]

It would be great if China figured out that it's interests would best lie with the people of Myanmar - shaping the resulting government to be more democratic/communist would be a great boon for all involved.

[@duded2281]

last time we supported a southeast asian country that wanted to be more democratic/communist, as soon as it won the war, it started planting mines inside our territory and tried to land grab

[@monsieurdorgat6864]

@@duded2281 lol what a generalization! So your solution is to not support the people near your country 🙄 like mimic the US and go for contras instead of humanitarians?

[@duded2281]

you keep on saying not supporting, maybe you should look up some of the groups of the rebel alliances, do their flags look familiar? where do you think they get supplies without a production base? where do the refugees escape and who's openning the border to them. @@monsieurdorgat6864

[@deezeed2817]

China stopped exporting revolution ages ago and direct interference sets a bad precedent. It will make China behave more like America and its imperialist model of global affairs. China is not going to use its military and political influence to impose a specific system or government.

[@nerdwisdomyo9563]

I am actually amazed that segment on scams didn’t turn into a VPN add or something

[@devmanek]

Do you guys have a newsletter? I would love daily blogs and pay for it rather than videos.

[@AustralianGovernment5516]

That woman at the start: *_Tulala does the Hula from Hawaii 💃💃_*

[@randallrona9618]

China: *tries to stop the civil war with ceasefire* Also China: *illegally enter the West Philippine Sea with some ships and claimed to be "reasonable legal" Me: Bruh. 😒

[@mrrolandlawrence]

when your sources are heavily leaning on the BBC, Reuters & wikipedia, you know its going to be good.

[@nimbusshadow-wings]

Lol, Myanmar is fighting for its future, both the dictators and rebels, and China is just like "you guys arent even thinking about me! what about what i want!"

[@Laolin521]

China care about China, what are they thinking!

[@tranvinhnhat1289]

@@Laolin521For their imperialist ambitions.

[@jatin2866]

Cracked at the intro with the dancing girl🙏😭😭😭

[@G3NG3N]

They are fighting for almost 80 years now. Whenever that happened, civilian will fled to Thailand. Now there are almost 7 millions of them in Thailand now.

[@1fedwinri]

So at 0:15 , it hurts me in the soul place that they don't draw in correctly that America is to the east. More likely they approach from the Malacca direction at the least.

[@chrisw8011]

Johnny Harris did a good video on Facebooks role in the genocide which adds an interesting parallel story that compliments the Chinese angle

[@TheAmericanAmerican]

As long as China doesn't interfere with democracy being reinstated in Myanmar, they have my blessing.

[@SelfProclaimedEmperor]

China does not want democracy to win in Myanmar

[@user-jt3dw6vv4x]

They only care about making money

[@SpruceWood-NEG]

老子不关心你的国家是什么体制。老子只关心能不能做生意！还有你的国家商业信誉怎么样。其他废话就闭嘴！

[@kisnar22]

good information bro

[@pellejoens7886]

China wants to support all three horses in the race. Then China is sure to win.

[@sweetballs4742]

We'll see... Especially if the resistance win against the military regime.

[@SelfProclaimedEmperor]

China does not want democracy to win in Myanmar

[@zackwang9314]

No, Chinese people only support the rebels. The myanmar government thinks China's patience is unlimited

[@TexRex6352]

3 Brotherhood Alliance sounds like something out of a fantasy Wuxia setting or some anime Romance of the Three Kingdoms. I hope they don't pursue Lu Bu.

[@matheo4934]

may god bless brothers and sisters from Allies forces.

[@walkertongdee]

The video about why the war is not in the description as they said, seems to have been deleted...

[@walkertongdee]

The video is hard to find it has two different titles.

[@itsyabawiban1576]

As a chin it’s horrible to see this war

[@ALwinDigital]

The town of Muse is not pronounced "muse" like the Greek muses. It's actually pronounced more like "Mu - Sel" (with a silent L). I can help with the pronunciation of Myanmar names. Kyauk Phyu (literally translated to White Rock/Stone, Phyu = white, Kyauk = stone/rock) is pronounced this way: Kyauk: the word sort of rhymes with gout or trout. The Ky has a sort of Ch sound in like the name Charlie, but with a K instead of C. Try saying Chout but with a bit of K sound instead of C sound. Phyu: Ph here is not pronounced like the Ph in Phone. P has a soft sounding P like in the name Pat or Pete. Combine saying Pu-you with the soft P without the first 'u' in the sound: pyou (should rhyme with you or foo or yuu).

[@amj.composer]

Don't bother, westerners genuinely never care about pronouncing names right

[@doigt6590]

They promised us that they would try to improve pronunciation, but once again they show that they really don't care at all.

[@derrickthewhite1]

I swear Burmese spelling is intentionally confusing to english speakers. (Yes, I'm using the old spelling that ends up being closer to the actual name of the country. I think that should only aid in my point)

[@ALwinDigital]

@@derrickthewhite1 Some "English" spelling is confusing to English speakers too.

[@derrickthewhite1]

@@ALwinDigital Fair enough! Though in the case of Burmese its not actually spelling, its romanization: how they present their language to outsiders. The current version I was complaining about was created in 1980(!) and is aggressively pushed by the Burmese government. So the government actively created and insists on a romanization more difficult for outsiders to understand.

[@GaionSputro]

You get it!

[@nfuryboss]

Myanmar is proverbially, the "Afghanistan of South East Asia". Lots of opium, arms, and illegal smuggling.

[@dsong2006]

One piece of missing info here is one of the 3 factions in the "three brotherhood alliance", the Myanmar National Democratic Alliance Army is an ethnic Han Chinese militia which fought to separate from Burma for decades. That region uses Mandarin as the defacto language, uses RMB as currency, uses Chinese energy companies for power and even China Mobile for cell service. Its practically a China outside of China. Every time there has been a war between the Kokang region and the Burmese military, China has always taken in Kokang refugees so they don't get genocided like what happen in other parts of Burma(ie Arakan state). There are people in China, especially in Yunnan who strongly support them and wants more Chinese gov. intervention. So backing the anti-gov alliance is not a difficult choice. Its not JUST about the Belt and Road initiative and some scam call centers or drug cartels.

[@marybailey7881]

Why is Xi in San Francisco shaking hands with the people likely behind this military rebellion? Why he doesn't come to the aid of the Myanmar military ?

[@黄微-j2j]

@@marybailey7881 Can you elaborate on who Xi shook hands with in San Francisco? Also it is a Chinese principle not to intervene in the internal affairs of other countries, so why help the Myanmar military?

[@jxmai7687]

​@marybailey7881 This video is so crap. The chinese government never likes any military government, he is not a real chinese or Asian expert.😂

[@Jrongjeeptrailer]

😊

[@f.w.ordemorton8057]

An excellent video on an underreported subject.

[@JohnnySmithWhite-wd4ey]

Myanmar the only country where the military always believes that they are the only people who can and should run the government.

[@srigorakhnath1297]

Also pakistan😂

[@EudoxiaPistilli]

China has always been committed to bilateral peaceful development and peaceful exchanges. We are committed to not fighting or harming civilians in Myanmar's internal affairs and have never interfered in Myanmar's internal affairs

[@FrugalPCOG]

China is arming all sides. They are building out the infrastructure of land they plan on incorporating myanmar into china's Indian Ocean coastline. Deep water ports and bypassing the malaca strait for oil supplies is crucial. You don't put trillions into another countries infrastructure when that country is involved in a civil war.. Unless they plan on incorporating it. Like Tibet?

[@RamaKrishna-lv1yn]

PRC is playing yet again a smart game. Intially PRC wants military junta to follow its order. After that military junta resisted its order. Since then PRC united the 3 rebel groups to fight against the military junta. This is always the game of PRC.

[@CARL_093]

well its about time to Myanmar to change course

[@prakyathkumar8618]

Collapse of Burma is a problem for all in the region

[@DennisTheInternationalMenace]

1:05 As of my post, I dont see the link for that vid in the discription.

[@GustavSvard]

That (freight) railway from China to Myanmar's coast would indeed be very useful for Chinese trade, and thus for all that trade with China. Only thing missing from the plan is to link it up with the under-construction Indian Dedicated Freight Corridor Railways. Sure, India and China don't get along the best, but linking up these freight railways would open up real possibilities for high capacity, fast, green logistics. (Link it up at a port city! the railways use different gauges so a yard to move the containers between trains is needed anyway, might as well put it right by the harbor). And if China has significant trade interests in getting Myanmar more calm? It'll happen. China will be willing to spend money and willing to replace regimes.

[@puraLusa]

Or maybe we should turn to uncompetent UN and demand an intern law to make all railways compatible in near future to avoid such constraints in trade. 🤷‍♀️ Having u compatible infrastructure seems to me a very good telling that intern comunity is a total failure.

[@Trump2024asw]

India omg ty they'd know English better than me and hate ccp hacks I need Indian friends.

[@Trump2024asw]

​@@puraLusathis sounds great until you realize what would have to be done to do this world wide. Freedom over safety and especially over comfort of trade.

[@puraLusa]

@@Trump2024asw yes, correct. The only detail I'll add is that freedom is usually traded for safety - and it only depends on how much of it ur willing to trade. No place has absolute freedom and the concept is usually usee to play partisanship in matters of common sense.

[@kezia8027]

Why on EARTH would india connect a railway to china? You do know they're currently in active combat at the border right? This is such a non-starter of an idea, it's honestly mind-boggling how it could even, in a bubble, devoid of any culture or current day politics, could EVER have a chance of occurring...

[@Flicks_and_Pages]

Freedom for Myanmar

[@michaelgrey1351]

Transport artillery?

[@leojones22]

Why ? Since when have you ever come up with any good news about China ?

[@wbbartlett]

3:40 Is a "transport artillery" when they export goods by firing them out of a canon?

[@domenico_ginny6164]

Hopefully democracy and order pulls through here and Myanmar isn’t split into smaller regions. Different races can live in peace there is no need for ethnic armies

[@louistan7560]

Myanmar will not be a repeat of Syria.

[@simontide6780]

People don't know the fact there are oils in Myanmar and resources richer than any South East Asian countries. And also entire Yunan province electricity is sold by Myanmar. China will not let go of Myanmar even if western allies came for trade.

[@Spright91]

Ive seen this one before. They beat the military but then they start fighting eachother.

[@Grasmel]

I think you forgot to actually link the other Myanmar video in the description

[@napoleonibonaparte7198]

They've just taken a local centre near the capital.

[@iwannabeyourdog4195]

5:07 I thought there would be a nordvpn ad lol

[@Tootsilog1]

Said the BIGGEST BULLY in the Asia-Pacific

[@syw-mr2km]

It is said that the Allied army found a large number of weapons in the forest

[@skylineXpert]

Its the access to their ports & the pipeline...

[@accountthatillusetocomment3041]

I can't fucking believe online scams are defining geopolitics. This is ridiculous, but I guess once a problem becomes big enough the actions made in an effort to solve it are just as ridiculous.

[@c雨颖]

You don't know that the online scam is protected by the Myanmar military junta, and he is a party involved in the fraud

[@xa-12musk8]

Why is wikipedia cited as a source in the description?

[@myintoosoe4160]

You still have to learn a lot to know about Myanmar. You still don't know that China has adopted armed forces in the Myanmar border area. You still don't know that the businessmen living in that area are from China. Those areas are Myanmar's territory, but you still don't know that those people speak Chinese and use only Chinese money. You still don't know that the owners of the online money scams and casino in that area are Chinese.

[@c雨颖]

You don't know that the scam protector is the junta, and you don't know that the people of northern Myanmar are Chinese

[@hoshin1015]

China hopes that the surrounding countries will have peace and the people will have money, so that China can earn more money in Asia. However, this will harm the interests of developed European countries, so they are making every effort to block China's Asian common prosperity plan. The military government is supported by the West, and China has never supported it. Some Burmese people say that China sells weapons to the military government. I think this is a fact, but if China doesn't sell them to them, Russia will also sell them to them, and India... well, India can't make them. The current situation is that the Burmese military government has kidnapped, abused, and killed hundreds of thousands of innocent poor people at the bottom of China, so China will no longer tolerate it. The end of the evil military government is approaching

[@user-jt3dw6vv4x]

China only cares when it fits its interests. China did not care one bit in the past when Myanmar's ethnic minorities were suffering. Now that it's affecting China's interests in the Bay of Bengal, China is supporting some of the anti-junta groups but before that, China was supporting the junta. No country cares about Myanmar at the most basic level and China will be the last to show actual interest.

[@marybailey7881]

Why is Xi in San Francisco shaking hands with the people likely behind this military rebellion? Why he doesn't come to the aid of the Myanmar military ?

[@hoshin1015]

@@marybailey7881 Given the current economic situation of the United States, can it assist the Burmese military government while also assisting Ukraine and Israel? Moreover, this time the United States wants to have economic cooperation with China, and it is impossible for it to have conflicts with China on this matter. Sorry, my English is poor and my expression may not be standard

[@marybailey7881]

the US has the limitless money printer. It can make as much money as it wants apparently . But my main question is why Xi is acting friendly with the USA right now and not backing the Myanmar military?@@hoshin1015

[@user-jt3dw6vv4x]

@@marybailey7881 The CCP supports the anti-junta groups because the anti-junta groups fit within Chinese interests. China can only achieve its Bay of Bengal plans with a stable Myanmar.

[@nyeinchankoko90]

I believe myanmar story can be adapted to Netflix series.

[@user-tp4ll7vu1i]

I nearly thought we would be hearing more VPN advertising @5:13