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Report: Biden Will Not Call Myanmar Military Takeover A "Coup" Over Fears They Will "Anger China
Right Journalism ^ | 02.02.2021 | Michelle M.

Posted on 02/02/2021 7:50:14 AM PST by USA Conservative

Myanmar’s military has seized power and declared a state of emergency for one year following days of escalating tension over the result of November’s parliamentary elections.

Aung San Suu Kyi, the country’s de facto leader, President Win Myint, and other senior members of the National League for Democracy (NLD) party have been detained in the capital, Naypyidaw, on Monday.

A video broadcast on military-owned television said power was handed to Senior General Min Aung Hlaing, commander-in-chief of the armed forces, citing “huge irregularities” in November’s vote.

The power grab came as Parliament – in which the military is given 25 percent of the seats – was set to open in Myanmar.

Joe Biden has threatened to resume sanctions on Myanmar following the military coup and the suspension of democracy and called for international solidarity in confronting the country’s generals.

“The United States removed sanctions on Burma over the past decade based on progress toward democracy. The reversal of that progress will necessitate an immediate review of our sanction laws and authorities, followed by appropriate action,” Biden said in a written statement addressing the first foreign policy crisis of his presidency.

But unlike President Trump Biden doesn’t have the courage to stand up to China at the grand stage, as MailOnline reported “Chaos” erupted in the White House as Biden administration officials argue over whether to call #Myanmar military takeover a “coup” over fears they will “anger China and be forced to withdraw foreign aid”.

Joe Biden has condemned the takeover but has so far refrained from calling it a coup.

The administration has so far refrained from calling the takeover a coup — a term the term would require the U.S. to cut off aid to Myanmar’s government under the Foreign Assistance Act.

The Trump administration imposed sanctions against Min Aung Hlaing and blocked him from entering the United States for his role in alleged human rights abuses.


TOPICS: Politics
KEYWORDS: biden; china; clickbait; donaldtrump; kowtow; maga
Can’t piss off the people who have been lining his families pockets for 20 years
1 posted on 02/02/2021 7:50:14 AM PST by USA Conservative
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To: USA Conservative

They can’t call it a coup because then they’ll be admitting to their coup too.


2 posted on 02/02/2021 7:52:59 AM PST by USA Conservative
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To: USA Conservative

I don’t follow... that infers China supports the Myanmar military?


3 posted on 02/02/2021 7:54:25 AM PST by Skywise
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To: USA Conservative

Q: What is the biggest differences between Biden, the Ho, and their collection of idiots and the Chinese Communist government?
A: The Chinese are far smarter and lie less.


4 posted on 02/02/2021 7:54:42 AM PST by Da Coyote
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To: USA Conservative

Ha!
Not a single mention of the massive vote fraud that provoked the military into action.
Their military was more faithful to their oath than ours...


5 posted on 02/02/2021 7:57:40 AM PST by Little Ray (The Government is always its own largest and most important Special Interest. .)
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To: USA Conservative

The cowards again have no problem lying about the fringe Q-nuts on January 6; but they just can’t risk offending their fellow travelers in public.


6 posted on 02/02/2021 8:01:50 AM PST by vpintheak (Live free, or die!)
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To: USA Conservative

Then call it a junta


7 posted on 02/02/2021 8:05:57 AM PST by HollyB
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To: USA Conservative

He effectively called it a coup a couple days ago. Backtracking doesn’t count.


8 posted on 02/02/2021 8:06:55 AM PST by Sacajaweau
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To: USA Conservative

News blast to all the gullible, lazy, woke ‘bystanders’ and to the free world: “Sh*t rolls downhill!”


9 posted on 02/02/2021 8:08:24 AM PST by SMARTY (“If you have ten thousand regulations, you destroy all respect for the law.” Winston Churchill)
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To: USA Conservative
In George Orwell's dystopian classic 1984, doublethink is the act of holding, simultaneously, two opposite, individually exclusive ideas or opinions and believing in both simultaneously and absolutely. Doublethink requires using logic against logic or suspending disbelief in the contradiction.

The three slogans of the party — “War Is Peace; Freedom Is Slavery; Ignorance Is Strength” — are obvious examples of doublethink. The act of doublethink also occurs in more subtle details throughout the novel.

10 posted on 02/02/2021 8:11:44 AM PST by SmokingJoe
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To: USA Conservative
Exactly....this phrase kind of resonates no?

citing “huge irregularities” in November’s vote

11 posted on 02/02/2021 8:12:25 AM PST by xp38
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To: USA Conservative

Let me guess, Dominion Voting Systems!!??


12 posted on 02/02/2021 8:25:05 AM PST by southernerwithanattitude (New and Improved Redneck!)
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To: Skywise

Well:

“power was handed to Senior General Min Aung Hlaing”

Maybe not the whole military. Maybe just some factions that are headed by those who lean towards ethnic Chinese background?


13 posted on 02/02/2021 8:25:25 AM PST by Boogieman
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To: USA Conservative
Biden Will Not Call Myanmar Military Takeover A "Coup" Over Fears They Will "Anger China:

Joe Biden, the best President, China has ever elected in America. Biden is totally owned by the ChiComs!

"Bobble Head” Biden is wholly owned and controlled by the CCP. The CCP is now allowed to do/say whatever the hell they want to do/say."

The CCP, also, owns and controls Willie Brown’s Hoe & (Dr Pepper Jill & the semi White Susan Brown Rice, the pre mixed WOC guide for the Obama Won!).

Biden is no leader. He is a puppet. The real leader is Susan Rice, who takes direction from Obama and his elite deep state cabal. Relax and enjoy Chairman Obama and his illegal third term as POTUS!

The good news is the CCP needs us as a prime customer, trainer of new engineers/scientists, as a pipeline for new technology, as a trading partner and as an ally.

If we are not a military threat to them and can help fund & cover/hide their aggression around the world. They and Susan Rice will just control us not bomb us.

The bad news is: They will daily, control more of our lives, during and post Dr. Pepper Jill Biden, Willie Brown’s Hoe and of course Deep State’s and Obama’s Susan Rice.


14 posted on 02/02/2021 8:50:13 AM PST by Grampa Dave (Law & order took the last train out of DC & America on election/coup/night, Tuesday, Nov. 03, 2020!!)
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To: Skywise

China is probably behind it. Whenever there is mischief afoot in the far east, I suspect China. Now it’s getting more that way with any third world crapper and even 1st world. They seem to be everywhere now.


15 posted on 02/02/2021 9:27:05 AM PST by virgil (The evil that men do lives after them )
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