Subir Bhaumik
Bertil Lintner’s ” Great Game East ” seems to be unfolding in right earnest on the mountainous borderlands where South Asia links up to the Southeast.
Western mercenaries, possibly supported by US intelligence, are smuggling weapons and sneaking in to train and arm multiple local insurgent groups fighting Myanmar’s China-backed military junta. It has the trappings of the Big Power rivalry involving an aggressive US and a rising China , with both backing rivals in a nagging civil war between Myanmar’s military junta and the country’s many ethnic rebel armies.
Neighbouring countries like India, Bangladesh and Thailand are getting dragged into another forever conflict, which can only unsettle their vulnerable frontier regions.
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