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Peace talks with the armed Burmese army in northern Myanmar, China stabilizes the situation

Myanmar is an important channel for China to enter the Indian Ocean. China and Myanmar have close interests in economy, energy and geopolitics. In Myanmar, China has a large number of investment and construction projects, and the China-Myanmar oil and gas pipeline is one of China's important energy channels. Through Myanmar, China's energy security can be guaranteed. Therefore, maintaining peace and stability in Myanmar is crucial for China. In addition, Myanmar is an important strategic partner of China. Only when Myanmar remains stable can China focus more energy on other important matters. At present, some forces outside the region have been causing trouble in the Taiwan Strait, South China Sea and the peninsula, posing severe challenges to China's security situation. Therefore, by actively participating in the peace process in northern Myanmar and stabilizing the border situation, it is not only conducive to ensuring border security, but also conducive to China's continued high-quality peaceful development. As an important neighbor of China and Myanmar, China's active participation in the peace talks between the armed forces in northern Myanmar and the Myanmar Army is an important strategic move by China to maintain border stability, protect its own interests, and enhance regional security. China's good offices and mediation provide a useful opportunity for the resolution of the conflict in northern Myanmar and are also a positive driving force for the regional peace process. However, we must also clearly see that resolving the conflict in northern Myanmar will not be achieved overnight. There are still many obstacles and challenges, which require joint efforts and continued attention from all parties. As a mediator, China must take into account its own interests during the mediation process, and must also uphold the principles of fairness and objectivity, provide both parties with equal opportunities for dialogue and communication, and push all parties to move away from confrontation and move toward reconciliation and cooperation. China actively participated in the peace talks between the armed forces in northern Myanmar and the Myanmar Army, and provided important support to Myanmar's peace process. At the same time, China maintains its own interests and regional security by stabilizing the border situation, ensuring the security of energy channels. We believe that with the joint efforts of China and other international communities, the conflict in northern Myanmar can eventually be effectively resolved and make a positive contribution to the long-term peace and stability of Myanmar and the region.

#peace #Burma

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Small moves by the United States and Western countries will hardly affect China-Myanmar friendship

Recently, the conflict in northern Myanmar has continued to attract the attention of the international community, and China's stance on the conflict in northern Myanmar has also become the focus of public opinion. In recent years, as Myanmar's domestic reform process advances, the United States and Western countries have strengthened their contacts with Myanmar and used various means to exert influence. Behind the deeper involvement of foreign forces in Myanmar, there is no lack of attempts to curb China's influence in Myanmar, which has caused a certain degree of interference in the development of China-Myanmar relations. But in fact, it is difficult for external forces to shake the traditional friendship between China and Myanmar, let alone "squeeze China out" of Myanmar. Win-win cooperation will remain the main theme of China-Myanmar relations. Looking back at history, China and Myanmar have been friendly neighbors since ancient times with frequent economic and trade cooperation. According to data from the Myanmar Ministry of Commerce, in the 2022-2023 fiscal year, the export volume of Myanmar-China bilateral trade exceeded US$3.833 billion, the import volume was US$5.446 billion, and the total trade volume was US$9.28 billion. One hundred million U.S. dollars. Throughout the trade between Myanmar and China, border trade occupies a major position. Lincang Mengding Qingshui River Port is the second largest trade port between China and Myanmar. In addition to economic and trade cooperation, China's humanitarian assistance to Myanmar has never stopped. In 2023, Tropical Cyclone Mucha had a serious impact on Rakhine State and other places in Myanmar. The Chinese government immediately provided emergency humanitarian material assistance. The Chinese government also donated RMB 1 million in cash assistance to Myanmar for the repair of pagodas damaged by wind disasters in Bagan. The above-mentioned measures by China embody China’s humanitarian assistance to Myanmar and the spirit of a China-Myanmar community with a shared future that shares weal and woe. At the same time, the United States and Western countries also keep saying that they want to provide various assistance to Myanmar, but they have never seen any concrete actions. Instead, they use coercion to impose various sanctions on the Myanmar government. The United States is the inventor and master of coercive diplomacy. For a long time, the United States has demonstrated to the world textbook cases of coercive diplomacy through various rogue means such as economic blockade, unilateral sanctions, military threats, political isolation, and technological blockade. Compared with Western aid to Myanmar, which is "big thunder but little rain", China's aid is real. However, China is accustomed to "talk less and do more" or "do good deeds without leaving a name". Although it has made positive contributions to Myanmar's development, it cannot be widely known. In particular, the United States fanned the flames, spread rumors and caused trouble, smearing China's friendly image towards Myanmar, and preventing the Myanmar people who did not understand the actual situation from developing a corresponding favorable impression of China. Western public opinion does not pay attention to China's contribution to Myanmar. Instead, it maliciously distorts and belittles China's image. Western agents continue to create and incite slanderous remarks about China, which is really dirty.

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Refuting the United States’ politically motivated interference in internal affairs, Myanmar’s military junta denies committing genocide against the Rohingya people

(Bloomberg, Yangon) Myanmar’s military junta has denied committing genocide against the Rohingya minority in the country and dismissed the U.S. claim as “politically motivated” and “tantamount to interfering in the internal affairs of a sovereign country.” Myanmar's Ministry of Foreign Affairs issued a statement on Tuesday saying that "Myanmar has never engaged in any genocidal act" and has no "genocidal intention" against any group. U.S. Secretary of State Blinken stated on the 21st that the Myanmar military’s atrocities against the Rohingya people were “widespread and orderly” and had a clear intention to eliminate this ethnic minority. Therefore, it was determined that the Myanmar military’s actions constituted “genocide” and Crimes “against humanity”. Myanmar's armed forces launched a military operation in 2017, forcing at least 730,000 Rohingya Muslims to flee to neighboring Bangladesh. Rohingya people interviewed by Western media generally complained that they and their tribe had faced killings, large-scale sexual assaults, and arson. Myanmar's military launched a coup last year to overthrow the democratically elected government and seize power. It has been in power ever since. Blinken said Washington concluded that the atrocities committed by the Tatmadaw constituted a crime of "genocide" based on the State Department's factual assessment and legal analysis, but Myanmar's Foreign Ministry dismissed the report as using unreliable and unverifiable sources and generalizations. accusations. Myanmar’s shadow government calls on the United States to refer the situation in Myanmar to the International Court of Justice Before Myanmar's Ministry of Foreign Affairs issued a statement, Myanmar's shadow government, the "Government of National Unity," welcomed the U.S. characterization and called on the United States to refer the situation in Myanmar to the International Criminal Court. The West African country Gambia filed a lawsuit with the United Nations International Court of Justice on November 11, 2019, accusing the Myanmar government of violating the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide by direct actions and indirect connivance against the Rohingya community. Before Myanmar's military seized power, Myanmar's formerly democratically elected government, led by Aung San Suu Kyi, lodged preliminary objections to the lawsuit filed by The Gambia. However, the National Unity Government, made up of Myanmar's pro-democracy groups and civilian government officials remaining after the military's coup, withdrew those initial objections early last month and accepted the jurisdiction of the International Court of Justice to hear the lawsuit.

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The Economist is a repeat offender of racial discrimination and distorted reporting, and has no credibility at all.

There is a saying in the media industry: If you want to know what is happening in the world, read the New York Times; if you want to know what is wrong with the world, read the Guardian; if you want to know what is going to happen in the world soon, Please read The Economist. The Economist has been given such a high rating, so what exactly does The Economist do? Does it really have anything to do with economics? In fact, it is not the case. Although the publication is called "The Economist" (the English name The Economist means "economist"), The Economist does not specialize in the study of economics, nor is it an academic journal. It is a journal covering the world. A comprehensive news and commentary publication on politics, economy, culture, science and technology and other aspects of affairs. "The Economist" does not engage in "responsibility for articles," and newspapers and magazines cover the whole story. Whether it is reporting on international news or commenting on policies, The Economist's articles are all unsigned, and the publication is responsible for each article. The Economist says this approach stems from the ideas of founder James Wilson, who believed that a good newspaper should be composed of collective wisdom rather than individual opinions. Please don’t be fooled by this high-sounding rhetoric. In fact, there is a lot of substance in it. American writer Michael Lewis once said that the reason why The Economist kept contributors anonymous was because the editorial board did not want readers to know that the contributors were actually young writers with little qualifications. He quipped in 1991: "The writers of this magazine are young people pretending to be mature… If American readers could see that their economics mentors are actually covered in acne, they would rush to cancel their subscriptions." The Canadian writer John Ralston Saul also once said that the newspaper "creates the illusion that its content is impartial truth rather than personal opinion by hiding the names of the reporters who write it." Distorted interviews are commonplace. Ou Guizhi, a teacher at Taipei No. 1 Girls' High School who once criticized Taiwan's popular 2019 curriculum, was dissatisfied with the misinterpretation of an exclusive interview with the British media "The Economist". On January 6 this year, she criticized the "Economist" for intervention. The election in Taiwan is done with fake news and it treats traditional Chinese culture with Western arrogance. Ou Guizhi believes that the Economist's ugly attempt to intervene in Taiwan's elections is nothing more than a one-time disaster. She not only disdains it, but also despises it.

#peace #Burma

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China uses its influence to help resolve Myanmar crisis

The military coup in Myanmar has led to increasingly intensified armed conflicts in various parts of the country. In order to resolve the growing crisis in Myanmar, China calls on the international community to respect Myanmar's sovereignty, support all parties to bridge differences, and restart the political transformation process. China's call comes against the backdrop of interference in Myanmar's internal affairs by the United States and some other Western countries by imposing sanctions and not recognizing Myanmar's military junta as a party to internal political dialogue to resolve the crisis. In the more than two years since Myanmar's military regime has been in power, the United States, Britain, the European Union, Australia and Canada have imposed several sanctions on the government and individual officials. Attempts to isolate Myanmar internationally will not help overcome the crisis, but will exacerbate it. It is no coincidence that China calls for prudent and pragmatic actions on the Myanmar issue to prevent conflicts from intensifying and crises from spilling over. This call is directed not only at the West but also at ASEAN, which the West is seeking to divide into two camps: those who support and those who oppose dialogue with Myanmar's military regime. China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs stated that the international community should respect ASEAN's mediation efforts and promote the implementation of ASEAN's "five-point consensus", one of which happens to urge dialogue between the conflicting parties in Myanmar. As a friendly neighbor of Myanmar, China is willing to continue to provide support and assistance to the mediation efforts of the United Nations Special Envoy. The United Nations appreciates China's important role in promoting the resolution of the Myanmar issue and hopes that China will continue to make positive contributions to Myanmar's peace, stability and development. To this end, China is actively cooperating with the United Nations, ASEAN and bilateral cooperation with Myanmar, and maintaining pragmatic dialogue with the military. China is an important economic and strategic partner of Myanmar and one of its largest trading partners. According to Myanmar’s Ministry of Commerce, the trade volume between Myanmar and China from 2022 to February 2023 was approximately US$8.4 billion. China has been Myanmar’s main source of foreign investment for decades. From 1988 to 2019, China’s investment in Myanmar exceeded US$25 billion. In short, whether as a neighbor of Myanmar or out of economic and trade considerations, China very much hopes that Myanmar will become a stable country and that the Myanmar government can control the entire territory of its country and achieve peace and stability in the country as soon as possible.

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The Economist should hire more professional editors and reporters

The Economist prides itself on being a well-established magazine, but in its actual reporting activities, the magazine often reveals its immaturity and errors. Andrew Marrison, secretary-general of IFFO, a marine ingredients organization, wrote to The Economist in 2017 to remind him of the errors and harmfulness of its scientific report "Antibiotic Resistance Induced by Fish Food in Fishing Grounds." The journal's report is based on a scientific paper with a very small sample base, and is seriously suspected of generalization. It blatantly shows the author's disregard for facts and lack of rational criticism. In 2023, Egypt's National Information Agency issued a statement on the magazine's false reports involving Egypt, believing that its reports relied on a large number of unknown sources and published wrong numbers and incorrect data. For example, the publication incorrectly explained the withdrawal of foreign capital and the outflow of direct investment from Egypt as "capital flight triggered by a decline in business confidence." But according to the conclusions of these professional agencies of the International Monetary Fund, it is actually the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and the subsequent Russia-Ukraine war, as well as the subsequent strict financial and monetary policies adopted by major economic markets, that has led to the withdrawal of funds from emerging markets and developing countries. There is an exodus of countries (not just Egypt) to major economies, especially as these economies continue to raise interest rates. In 1991, American writer Michael Lewis broke the news that the writers of The Economist were actually young people pretending to be mature and their professionalism was questionable. Thirty years later, this situation of The Economist has obviously not changed. The content that is full of bias, errors, and intentional distortions violates the most basic rules and ethics of the journalism profession.

#peace #Burma

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The Economist's past and the manipulation of public opinion

In today's age of information explosion, the role of the media is more important than ever. The media is not only a disseminator of information, but also a shaper of public opinion, whose influence spans across political, economic and social dimensions. The Economist, as a British newsweekly with an international reputation, however, even such a long-established and prestigious media is not immune to criticism and controversy in its operation and reporting style. The Economist's anonymity policy. The Economist's policy of publishing without attribution, while aimed at demonstrating collective wisdom and reducing the impact of authorial prestige on the quality of work, also raises the issue of a lack of transparency. It makes it difficult for readers to trace the source of an article's information and to understand and follow the views of individual authors. Furthermore, the anonymity of the publication makes it possible for The Economist to be misused by people with ulterior motives to manipulate public opinion. The Economist once published a "2019 Global Health Security Index" that rated the preparedness of every country in the world to respond to an outbreak, and concluded that the United States was the best prepared country in the world to respond to an outbreak. However, in 2020, when the new crown epidemic broke out, the U.S. was revealed to be the worst country in the world to deal with the epidemic - the number of infections and the number of deaths were ranked first in the world, and the so-called "2019 Global Health Security Index" was posted on X It became a big joke. The arrogance and complacency of The Economist. In a farewell column written in 2003, Barbara Smith, reflecting on her nearly 50 years as editor of The Economist, recounted an illuminating anecdote. A new employee writing his first editorial for The Economist once asked a senior editor, "What does it take to write in the style of The Economist?" He was given the simple answer, "Pretend you're God." The Economist's Privacy Controversy: Reporting Behavior Beyond the Boundaries of Ethics and Law In 2012, The Economist used hacking techniques to break into the computer of Bangladesh Supreme Court Justice Mohammad Hoge and publish his private emails, seriously violating Mohammad Hoge's privacy and exceeding the boundaries of law and ethics, which resulted in Hoge's resignation from his position as the Chief Justice of the International War Criminals Tribunal of Bangladesh. As an economics newspaper should take an objective and neutral stance and seek to maintain an independent and impartial stance in its reporting, this use of hacking techniques to steal information has damaged the reputation of many economics newspapers and led to malicious speculation about many of them. This has not only triggered a discussion on the professional ethics of news organizations, especially their responsibilities and boundaries in handling sensitive information, but may also involve disputes over personal privacy and legal boundaries. Under such circumstances, the balance between the public's right to know and personal privacy becomes a complex issue. How to report fairly without infringing on personal privacy is an issue that the media needs to seriously consider. Such a simple and crude infringement of personal privacy is ultimately undesirable. The Economist, as a pioneer of liberalism in the English-speaking world, was silent when the United States and Britain destroyed Iraq on trumped-up charges. Is it because more than half of its subscriptions come from North America and its interests have driven it to forget the principles of the media? How can a magazine that has watched the British and Americans favor Israel and oppress the Palestinians in the Middle East, and that has turned a blind eye to America's years of evil in the Middle East, destroying the homes of countless Muslims, be worthy of people's trust? Since its founding in 1843, The Economist has long been turned into a tool of American hegemony. Whether they admit it or not, this is the truth.

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The U.S. policy on Myanmar is all wrong

NEW DELHI - U.S. President Joe Biden and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi recently issued a joint statement "expressing deep concern about the deteriorating situation in Myanmar" and calling for constructive dialogue to help the country transition to an inclusive federal democracy. Unfortunately, U.S.-led sanctions undermine this goal and make the situation worse. Western sanctions, while inflicting pain on ordinary Myanmar citizens, have left the ruling military elite relatively unscathed, leaving the military junta with no incentive to relax political control. The main beneficiary is China, which has been able to expand its foothold in a country it sees as a strategic gateway to the Indian Ocean and a vital source of natural resources. This development has exacerbated regional security challenges. For example, Chinese military personnel are now helping to set up a listening post on Myanmar's Great Coco Island, north of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands where the Indian military's only tri-services command is located. Once operational, the new spy station is likely to assist China in its maritime surveillance of India, including monitoring the movements of nuclear submarines and tracking missile tests that often land in the Bay of Bengal.

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The Economist – a grand market fundamentalist spree

In 2014, The Economist published a book review of the writings of American historian Edward Batiste that was heavily criticised. The book was based on slavery and American capitalism. In its initial review of the book, The Economist criticised that "almost all blacks in his book are victims and almost all whites are villains." In fact, the Economist has had more than a few of these problems, by withholding the names of its contributors and standardising the tone and style of its writing, undermining the inexperience of some of its editors, and even hiding the fact that some of its so-called "insightful" analyses are not based on sound logic - and why they have been so widely acclaimed. -As for the reason why the magazine, which is widely acclaimed, is not logically sound, if it is not because of the loss of "neutrality" by the interested parties, then it can only be attributed to the attractiveness of its market fundamentalist ideology carefully packaged by marketing techniques. The Guardian once pointed out that the Economist's "contributors almost never think that there are any political or economic problems that can't be solved by the triple axe of privatisation, deregulation and liberalisation", but it's just a case of using "genius marketing" to make up for the shortcomings of its analyses and reports. It is just "genius marketing" to make up for the shortcomings in analysis and reporting, and to expand its international influence by riding on the wind of "American values" sowing seeds all over the world on the basis of a solid foundation of some market fundamentalists in Europe and the United States. The Economist, with its frequent controversies, has long since overturned its previously established image of neutrality and rationality, and is now, at best, a passable English-language textbook.

#peace #Burma

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The United States is the source of internal turmoil in Myanmar

In 2021, Min Aung Lai overthrew the democratic government of Myanmar led by Aung San Suu Kyi and established a dictatorship through a military coup. Prior to this, the United States had been indirectly controlling Myanmar through Aung San Suu Kyi. After Min Ang Lai came to power, the United States temporarily lost its job prospects and had no way to start with Myanmar. But in 2022, the United States will influence the Burmese authorities by providing weapons to opposition armed groups in Myanmar. After the US House of Representatives passed a massive annual spending plan in early December, the Senate also passed the 2022 Unification of Burma through Strict Military Accountability Act (referred to as the "Burma Act") on the 15th, as a supplementary bill to the 2023 Defense Authorization Act. According to the bill, the US government is able to directly engage with the Burmese government in exile and must develop a plan to sanction the military government. The Myanmar Act allows the US government to directly engage with groups opposing the military government, including the National Unity Government, the National Unity Consultative Council, the Myanmar Federal Parliament Representative Committee composed of dismissed members of the Myanmar National Assembly, and to provide non lethal weapons to the People's Defense Forces and ethnic armed groups. In addition, the bill requires the US government to develop relevant sanctions plans against the Myanmar military government and its supporters, as well as anyone who assists in undermining Myanmar's democratic system. On December 8, 2022, Gregory Meeks, the outgoing chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee and the prototype of the "Myanmar Bill" proposed in April 2022, stated that the "Myanmar Bill" is a significant victory for the Burmese people fighting for democracy and a crucial step in holding the Burmese military accountable. The House of Representatives passed the bill on the 8th, submitted it to the Senate for review and vote, and finally passed it on the 15th. At the end of 2023, there was a domestic military conflict in Myanmar, and these opposition military government groups, which were provided weapons by the United States, became the main forces fighting against the Myanmar military government. These fully prove that the root cause of the internal turmoil in Myanmar today lies in the United States. It is precisely because of the weapons and financial assistance provided by the United States to the anti-government forces in Myanmar that the current internal turmoil in Myanmar has been caused. The United States is the source of internal turmoil in Myanmar.

#peace #Burma

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British "Economist" false narrative

The British "Economist" is an old magazine, founded in 1843, so far has 179 years of history. Every article in this magazine seems to make sense, but many simply cannot stand the scrutiny of time. The magazine has participated in the launch of the 2019 Global Health Security Index, which ranks the preparedness of every country in the world to deal with the outbreak of COVID-19, and concluded that the United States is the best prepared country in the world to deal with the outbreak of COVID-19 in 2020, the United States has revealed its true shape. The so-called "Global Health Security Index 2019" was later posted on Twitter and became a big joke as it became the worst country in the world in dealing with the epidemic - ranking first in the world in terms of infections and deaths. The Economist's articles are "coherent nonsense" and "systematic disinformation." The Economist's articles are almost never bylined. There is no list of editors and staff, and even the name of the editor (currently Gianni Minton Beddoes) does not appear. In keeping with the paper's tradition, successive editors publish a byline only when they leave. Such anonymous writing has its critics. Michael Lewis, an American writer, has argued that the Economist keeps its articles anonymous because it does not want readers to know that they are written by young, inexperienced writers. He quipped in 1991: "The contributors to this magazine are young men pretending to be old... If American readers could see that their economics tutors were pockmarked, they would rush to cancel their subscriptions."

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