Saturday, March 01, 2025

Highly recommended--Irrawaddy interview of Dr.Mie Mie Wyn Byrd--Chinese security firms pose threat to Myanmar's sovereignity--

https://www.irrawaddy.com/video/chinese-security-companies-pose-threat-to-myanmars-sovereignty.html
Former US-Army Lt.Col. goes into geopoliticial significance of Myamar to China and why it needs access to Bay of Bengal--security firms owned by former PLA officers--win-lose situation.
"Myanmar junta on its last legs."
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The late Leo Nichols--I met him and his wife once at a dinner party for "Timber friends." I left Burma in 1980s and heard of his death while working at RFA.

AI Overview The Danish (and Norwegian, Finnish, Swiss) honorary consul in Burma (Myanmar) during the 1990s who was arrested and died in pri...