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25.08.25 - 12:06
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Myanmar Is Shaping Up To Be The Next Front Of The Sino-US New Cold War (ZeroHedge)
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Myanmar Is Shaping Up To Be The Next Front Of The Sino-US New Cold War
Authored by Andrew Korybko via Substack,
China wants to retain access to Kachin State's rare earths, the US wants to poach them, and their escalating competition over this part of Myanmar could make it the next New Cold War flashpoint.
Reuters reported that the US' Myanmar policy might shift towards more diplomatic engagement with either the ruling junta or the Kachin Independence Army (KIA) in an attempt to obtain access to the enormous rare earth mineral reserves in the second's eponymous state. At present, the US is suspected of clandestinely supporting some of the armed anti-junta groups, but the KIA isn't thought to have benefited due to their isolated position along Myanmar's mountainous border with China and India.
This geography poses a challenge to the redirection of these resources from China to India for example regardless of Kachin State's final political status, whether autonomous within a (con)feder...
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