Han Invasion of Myanmar

A comment on Chinese takeover of Myanmar:

The Chinese are invading Burma using their two potent (sic) Y's: their Yuan and their Y-chromosomes. Anyway Burma is practically a Chinese colony nowadays, politically, economically and most importantly demographically. Presently, there are about 5 million Chinese in Burma but the number is growing rapidly (a Burmese ID costs about 500 Yuan at the Chinese border and a Burmese bride perhaps about 5000?). China needs "Lebensraum" and Burma is a "fruitful"(sic) country for their surplus males, a takeaway kitchen for natural resources and of great geo-strategic value (access to the Bay of Bengal; string-of-pearls strategy).

Newsweek: The road to Mandalay

WikiLeaks: NKorea Helping Burma Build N-Sites?

Is North Korea helping Burma to build nuclear and missile installations? According to the WikiLeaks documents, this may be happening.

Burma "minority" fleeing to India

"...Members of the largely Christian Chin group are entering the border state of Mizoram ......"

Great. More "christian persecution" mythology is exactly what the North East needs.... K.R Narayanan, the crypto-christist with the Burmese christist spouse - the one who proselytised from the august portals of Rashtrapati Bhavan - would be singing hallelujahs in his grave. Here's an interesting article by Sandhya Jain where she asserts that even Aung San Suu Kyi may be a stealth christist.

The Saffron Revolution

The Independent (UK) talks about the coming 'Saffron Revolution'.
Saffron Revolution? That sounds very apocalyptic. Oh wait, the rioting saffron monks are in Burma nextdoor, so I guess that makes it okay.

India to develop Myanmar port to connect to North-East

This is great news. India is developing the Sittwe port in Myanmar which would help it connect to land-locked North-East, thus bypassing Bangladesh. Would help the North-East develop much faster, making it the gateway to South-East Asia. Also in times of war, provides India with one more route to its North-East.
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