Inflection EP22: America’s Multi-Front War on China

The US continues its strategy of encircling & containing China. In recent years it is less encirclement and containing as it is trying to burn everything down around China and provoke it into a conflict the US thinks it can still win.

Angelo Giuliano and Brian Berletic discuss the ongoing crisis in Myanmar & Thailand, & how they are connected to Taiwan and this overarching US strategy.

References

Myanmar

NED - Burma 2020:
https://www.ned.org/region/asia/burma-2020/
Myanmar Now - Myanmar’s shadow government launches plan to tax business owners:
https://www.myanmar-now.org/en/news/myanmars-shadow-government-launches-plan-to-tax-business-owners
Myanmar Now - Police officer dies in Mandalay bombing near gems trading centre:
https://www.myanmar-now.org/en/news/police-officer-dies-in-mandalay-bombing-near-gems-trading-centre
Myanmar Now - School reopening greeted with criticism from parents and teachers:
https://www.myanmar-now.org/en/news/school-reopening-greeted-with-criticism-from-parents-and-teachers
Reuters - Boycott and bombings mar Myanmar's new school year:
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/boycott-bombings-mar-myanmars-new-school-year-2021-06-02/
Myanmar Now - Yaw resistance fighters threaten ‘serious action’ against anyone who continues to work for junta:
https://www.myanmar-now.org/en/news/yaw-resistance-fighters-threaten-serious-action-against-anyone-who-continues-to-work-for-junta
Myanmar - Now - Junta-appointed administrator shot dead in Mandalay while urging people to pay electric bills:
https://www.myanmar-now.org/en/news/junta-appointed-administrator-shot-dead-in-mandalay-while-urging-people-to-pay-electric-bills
Columbia Journalism Review - Myanmar’s Other Reporters:
https://www.cjr.org/special_report/myanmars-other-reporters.php
Thailand

AP - Activists Launch Campaign for Repeal of Royal Defamation Law:
https://www.khaosodenglish.com/news/2021/11/01/activists-launch-campaign-for-repeal-of-royal-defamation-law/
The Nation Thailand - iLaw launches petition for charter rewrite (2020):
https://www.nationthailand.com/in-focus/30392491
NED - Thailand 2020:
https://www.ned.org/region/asia/thailand-2020/
iLaw - About (scroll down for English):
https://ilaw.or.th/about
Rfi - France's Alain Soral gets jail sentence for Holocaust denial:
https://www.rfi.fr/en/france/20190415-french-far-right-activist-alain-soral-sentenced-jail-holocaust-denial
Guardian - David Irving jailed for Holocaust denial:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2006/feb/20/austria.thefarright
DW - 'Nazi Grandma' loses appeal case, sentenced to 14 months in prison for Holocaust denial:
https://www.dw.com/en/nazi-grandma-loses-appeal-case-sentenced-to-14-months-in-prison-for-holocaust-denial/a-41565036
Independent - 5 of the worst atrocities carried out by the British Empire:
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/worst-atrocities-british-empire-amritsar-boer-war-concentration-camp-mau-mau-a6821756.html

Taiwan

Reuters - Taiwan welcomes first official European Parliament delegation:
https://www.reuters.com/business/cop/taiwan-welcomes-first-official-european-parliament-delegation-2021-11-03/
Wikileaks, Clinton Emails - US-Georgian meeting schedule (noting Raphael Glucksmann as “Adviser to the [Georgian] President”):
https://wikileaks.org/clinton-emails/emailid/12241
The Parliament Magazine (EU) - New Special Committee on Foreign Interference elects Raphaël Glucksmann as chair:
https://www.theparliamentmagazine.eu/news/article/new-special-committee-on-foreign-interference-elects-raphal-glucksmann-as-chair
NYT - France’s vaccine contracts with McKinsey lead to questions for Macron:
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/22/world/frances-vaccine-contracts-with-mckinsey-lead-to-questions-for-macron.html
SCMP - EU defends plan to expand Taiwan relations ‘without recognition of statehood’:
https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3150500/eu-defends-plan-expand-taiwan-relations-without-recognition
Global Times - Chinese mainland should keep ‘strategic focus’ despite token European politicians' visit Taiwan:
https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202111/1238084.shtml
Global Times - Tsai won’t deter PLA by hyping US troops’ presence in Taiwan: retired Taiwan general:
https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202111/1238087.shtml
US State Dept - U.S. Relations with Taiwan:
https://www.state.gov/u-s-relations-with-taiwan/
Atlas of Economic Complexity - Taiwan Exports by Partner 2019:
https://atlas.cid.harvard.edu/explore?country=249&product=undefined&year=2019&productClass=HS&target=Partner&partner=undefined&startYear=undefined

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