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Again, complete hearsay that China is supporting the military coup. They had good relations with incumbent government due to the belt and road initiative.


>> The people of Myanmar have been sharing lots and lots of videos...

> complete hearsay...

Um, what? How do you go from video evidence to "complete hearsay"?


So where are these videos?


> They had good relations with incumbent government due to the belt and road initiative.

The incumbent government of Myanmar WAS the military, just in a less overt fashion. They were the ones in charge of almost everything, the main change is now they don’t have a facade of democracy.


CCP saw democracy in Burma as the West gaining influence in the region.


Which was correct - given that democratic Burma was a crown jewel of Obama's Asian Pivot.




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