March 16, 2021: China is angry at its southern neighbor Myanmar (Burma) because a February 1
st military coup put the Burmese army back in charge of the government and unleashed a lot of popular anti-China anger. The Burmese generals had been persuaded to allow democracy to return in 2010 with the understanding that the generals would not be punished for misdeeds during decades of military rule. The generals continue to misbehave after 2020. Chinese officials met with their Burmese counterparts three weeks after the coup and were assured that the substantial Chinese economic investments in Burma would be protected. The coup put an unpopular military government in control. China thought this would make Burma a more compliant and cooperative neighbor. Within a week of the military takeover anti-military demonstrations began and continued despite police and soldiers ordered to fire on the crowds. That killed or wounded a growing number of Bu
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March 3, 2021: After a decade of effort Russia is finally completing its coastal defense rebuilding program. With the delivery of Bastion-P coast defense missile batteries to Sakhalin Island on the Pacific coast, the program is complete. Sakhalin is 43 kilometers from Hokkaido, the northernmost of the Japanese home islands. The waters between them are called the La Perouse Strait, which is the passage between the Russian dominated Sea of Okhotsk and the Sea of Japan. The strait is closed up to four months a year by ice and transit by submerged submarines is difficult because of strong currents and relatively shallow (as little as 51 meters) depth. The eastern part of the Sea of Okhotsk is covered by the Kamchatka Peninsula, which already has Bastion-P batteries installed. That provides coastal defense that extends into Arctic waters. The southernmost region of the Russian Far East, containing the port of Vladivostok and the most densely populate
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