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praveen swamy is speaking on it, so there must be some movement in his master's gaze, laos is on the horizon of west (probably the muricans).i'll add one more layer to this... speculative of course.
muricans continue to make their moves to get land access to south china.
in past decade, from this perspective two most discussed in U.S discourse . vietnam and myanmar (not laos, not cambodia, not thailand).
- U.S-vietnam relationship has been on a upswing in the last decade.
- on myanmar.
when aung-sun-suu-kyi was in government, what was murican discourse focussing on?
chan/shan state which borders with china. they were having trouble negotiating with local military groups there.
when it was getting clear that myanmar army is not budging, what did muricans focus on?
rohingya.
what did myanmar army do to counter this threat?
they dethroned aung-sun-suu-kyi.
how does bangladesh come into the picture from this perspective?
land access to myanmar.
what did china do while all this was going on(especially in the last decade)?
they deepened ties with laos (land locked communist country),
built a submarine base between BoB and myanmar,
increased their investments in vietnam.
how did India get impacted in all this?
- Manipur unrest
- Bangladesh unrest
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it might look like he is speaking about laos, but it is still about myanmar and china, the place he is talking about is at the tri junction between myanmar, laos and thailand.
for me the rule is simple, folks like praveen swamy never talks in favour of India's national interest, if he has taken up some topic, the way things play out is almost always second order effects are detrimental to Indian interests.
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