US-backed Terrorism Targets Vietnam & Myanmar in Wider War on China

The New Atlas

Jul 14, 2023

- Two terrorist attacks this month (June 2023) in Southeast Asia have been carried out by groups backed by the United States government and its allies for decades;

- This includes a singer murdered in Myanmar and a series of armed attacks carried out on police stations in Vietnam killing 9 including several civilians;

- British state media, the BBC, and US government-funded media platform Radio Free Asia have attempted to spin and even justify this terrorism as part of a much wider pattern promoting and defending terrorism as a means to counter China’s rise and punish nations working closely with China;

- The opposition in Myanmar has openly been backed by the US and UK for decades

- fighting to reinstall Aung San Suu Kyi and her National League for Democracy back into power;

- In Vietnam, the ethnic Montagnards had fought alongside US invaders in the Vietnam War, and since then have worked closely with the US through the National Endowment for Democracy toward separatism;

- Much of this context is omitted from Western state-media accounts of the terrorism;

- Both Myanmar and Vietnam’s current governments have close relations with China. Vietnam, while depicted in the Western media as “anti-China,” has worked with China to build infrastructure within its borders and access Chinese rail projects to bring their products all the way to Europe;

References:

Radio Free Asia - Armed group attacks Vietnamese police stations, 39 people arrested (June 11, 2023): https://www.rfa.org/english/news/viet... Human Rights Watch - Vietnam: Free Political and Religious Detainees (2011): https://www.hrw.org/news/2011/04/07/v... Falun Dafa - Teachings at the Conference in Switzerland Hongzhi Li September 4–5, 1998 ~ Geneva, Switzerland: https://en.falundafa.org/eng/lectures... Govinfo - US-Vietnam Trade Relations (June 15, 2000): https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/C... BBC - Lily Naing Kyaw: Killing of Myanmar singer unnerves pro-military celebrities (June 6, 2023): https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-6... The New Atlas - Myanmar: US-funded Propaganda Spins Opposition Terrorism (2021): • Myanmar: US-funde... SCMP - SCO summit: China urges member states to ward off foreign-backed ‘colour revolutions’ (2022): https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplo... MHRO - Achievements: https://www.mhro.org/about/accomplish...