September 8, 2017 (Tony Cartalucci - NEO) - With the recent attack on police in Myanmar by terrorists described by Reuters as "Muslim insurgents," and ongoing terrorism plaguing the Philippines where forces are engaged with militants from the so-called "Islamic State," it would appear that terrorism has spread into Southeast Asia with no signs of waning.
Days after Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi met with Chinese President Xi Jinping at the BRICS Summit, India has made a shocking new threat against China and its ally Pakistan.
The meeting between Modi and Xi did not result in any concrete promises apart from a general agreement to increase dialogue so as to avoid future border disputes from transpiring into tense standoffs like the one which took place in Doklam/Donglang over the summer.
Around 90,000 Rohingya have fled Myanmar since a campaign of state-sponsored violence broke out in the country’s Muslim-majority Rakhine state on August 25.
North Korea has taken a lot of crap from China over the decades. Now it looks ready to dish it back. Let’s welcome the world’s ninth bona fide nuclear power: North Korea! North Korea’s nuclear weapons aren’t just a deterrent; they’re leverage for North Korea to push away from China and push the United States toward acceptance of North Korea as a legitimate state. That was just some of the bad news for China on its periphery as headaches pile up in the Himalayas, Myanmar, and Cambodia.
Israel has continued to sell weapons to Myanmar as thousands of Rohingya refugees flee the military’s violent crackdown in the Rakhine state.
The weapons sold to Myanmar include over 100 tanks, weapons and boats used to police the country’s border, according to human rights groups and Burmese officials.
September 5, 2017 (Tony Cartalucci - LD) - The unfolding crisis in Southeast Asia's state of Myanmar has confounded many geopolitical analysts due to its complex history and the intentionally deceptive and now contradictory coverage provided by the Western media.The current government of Myanmar is headed by Aung San Suu Kyi and her National League for Democracy (NLD).
In many ways the would-be highlight of this year’s BRICS summit, the inevitable handshake and discussion between Chinese President Xi Jinping and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, was something of a dog that did not bark.
While India withdrew its troops from Doklam/Donglang just prior to the beginning of the BRICS summit, in a move widely seen as a way to avoid embarrassment for the Indian delegation upon its visit to China, little apparent progress on settling the underlying border tensions between the Asian powers appears to have been made.
Russia’s President Vladimir Putin has addressed journalists at the BRICS conference in Xiamen China where he offered harsh words about the current state of political culture in the United States and warned of the dangers which are implicit in a bellicose approach to North Korea.By contrast, Vladimir Putin praised China’s hosting of the BRICS summit and spoke warmly of the atmosphere at the Xiamen based summit which closes today.
Graphic eyewitness footage has emerged of Rohingya Muslims allegedly killed while fleeing state violence in Myanmar’s northern Rakhine state.
A series of videos show villages being burned as well as bodies of dead children and old women, allegedly killed by Myanmar armed forces.
“Everything has been burned to ashes by now,” one eyewitness told Human Rights Watch (HRW), adding that security forces had shot civilians as they ran away.
