So otherwise known as the Knicks rule?

Serge Pun is a powerful Burmese-Chinese businessman whose businesses including companies publicly listed in Myanmar and Singapore thrived under prior military and civilian regimes. He has recently fallen out of favor with Min Aung Hlaing and was detained by the Junta for alleged financial crimes.

Born to Burmese-Chinese parents in Burma who were communist party members. In his youth his whole family escaped to Beijing and were welcomed by the Chinese as citizens when military junta took over Burma in 1961 and communist guerillas became the main focus of the army. As an adult he later moved to Hong Kong then Singapore and began establishing businesses in Burma with "funds" from overseas. He later renounced other citizenships and reclaimed Burmese citizenship so that he can own real estate in Burma. His communist Chinese links and links to Singapore, a known financial safe heaven for drug lords of Burma makes him a businessman whose moves and career are interesting to follow.

This little report speaks to the nature of guerilla groups in Burma. And how feudal and medieval the politics of guerillas are.

There is an interesting passage here about Rohingya guerillas and the Junta:

"The junta soldiers and Muslim armed rebels, who retreated during the AA offensive on Maungdaw, took shelter in the outposts."

This has a brief history of the most powerful ethnic armies in Burma today and is a must read for anyone with interest in the conflicts in Burma.

What kind of exploitative capitalism do we have in Canada? And how is this allowed? This is utterly ridiculous!

What a piece of shit. And this guy was running US foreign policy? Wow. Saudis must be regretting paying this man $40m a year to manage their billions.

Falling birth rates are bad news for economies and billionaires, but good news for the planet.

Poilievre needs to grow up put on pants and be a man. How the F are you expected to exercise judgement as a leader without getting proper security clearance? Are you hiding something?

Funny thing is this kind of behaviour isn't unique to Musk. A lot of entrepreneurs and CEOs seem to have similar kind of attitude. They want everything done cheaper faster and there's no 2 ways about it. It's their way or highway. If shit goes to hell it's other people's heads that roll.

So Chinese bots are on lemmy too now. You obviously didn't read the article - "Of those aircraft, the ministry said 10 had either crossed the median line of the Taiwan Strait, which previously served as an unofficial barrier between the two sides, or entered the southwestern part of Taiwan's air defence identification zone, or ADIZ."

In international relations, militaries have defined and at times unspoken rules of engagement. This was NOT routine flight over mainland China that you are making out to be, but was a clear breach of said protocols. Thus Taiwan sent its fighter jets to observe the Chinese military aircraft.

Think of it as fortuitous timing. Reddit is the old internet. Lemmy is the new world. You are one of its early movers. Come fill this place.