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US Uses Thai Proxies to Escalate Crisis in Myanmar, Creating Arc of Chaos on China's Borders
The New Atlas
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Mar 15, 2024
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Just as the US is destabilizing the Middle East to contain Iran, and Eastern Europe to contain Russia, the US is destabilizing Southeast Asia vs. China.

The US is focused particularly on Myanmar where US backed opposition groups are using armed violence to seize power.

Through US gov orgs like the National Endowment for Democracy, the US is supporting these armed groups beyond Myanmar's borders in neighboring Thailand, endangering regional peace and stability.

References:

ASEAN - What We Do:
https://asean.org/what-we-do/
Reuters - Thai parliament holds Myanmar seminar over junta's objection (March 2, 2024):
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pa...
The Diplomat - UN General Assembly Denies Junta Bid for Myanmar Seat (December 2022):
https://thediplomat.com/2022/12/un-ge...
US State Department - Counselor Chollet’s Meeting with Burmese Representatives (September 2021):
https://www.state.gov/counselor-choll...
NED - Zin Mar Aung:
https://www.ned.org/fellows/ms-zin-ma...
NUG - Zin Mar Aung:
https://mofa.nugmyanmar.org/h-e-daw-z...
US Institute of Peace - Jason Tower:
https://www.usip.org/people/jason-tower
Brot Fur Die Welt - Conflict Dynamics and the Belt and Road Initiative (2020):
https://www.brot-fuer-die-welt.de/fil...
UN - Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar (Tom Andrews):
https://www.ohchr.org/en/special-proc...
NDI - Madeleine Albright:
https://www.ndi.org/people/madeleine-...
The World - Myanmar Elections: A Changing Country and its Exiled Opponents (2012):
https://theworld.org/stories/2012-03-...
Fortify Rights - Annual Report 2015:
http://www.fortifyrights.org/download...
The Border Consortium - About Us:
https://www.theborderconsortium.org/a...
Scrol In - Man on a mission: How Soe Myint went from being a hijacker in India to a media tycoon in Myanmar (2018):
https://scroll.in/article/892114/man-...
Mizzima - Chronicling the evolution of Mizzima:
https://web.archive.org/web/201004060...
Irrawaddy - Burma’s State Media Accuses US Donor Foundation of Neo-colonialism (2007):
https://www2.irrawaddy.com/article.ph...
The Irrawaddy - Thailand Will No Longer Be Quiet on Myanmar: Incoming Coalition (May 2023):
https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/asia/t...
Bloomberg - Thailand Needs Hyperloop, Not China-Built High-Speed Rail, Junta Critic Says (2018):
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articl...
The Nation - Foreign Ministry tells off diplomatic corps for ‘supporting Thanathorn’ (2019):
https://www.nationthailand.com/in-foc...
US FARA - Thanathorn Juangroongruangkit’s 2019 US lobbying disclosure:
https://efile.fara.gov/docs/6582-Supp...
Guardian - US campaign behind the turmoil in Kiev (2004):
https://www.theguardian.com/world/200...
Washington Post - As Myanmar protesters torch Chinese factories, workers are caught in spiraling crisis (2021):
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/...
Irrawaddy - China-Backed Pipeline Facility Damaged in Myanmar Resistance Attack (2022):
https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/burma/...
Irrawaddy - Myanmar Resistance Group Claims Attack on Chinese Pipeline Facility (2023):
https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/burma/...
Myanmar Now - After a bold attack, PDF fighters consider their next move (2021):
https://myanmar-now.org/en/news/after...