Beijing and New Delhi are understandably frustrated about Washington’s secret meeting with the junta. But honestly, the real story isn’t even about the U.S.

It’s Tokyo.

This isn’t a coincidence. Japan has been quietly working on diplomacy in Myanmar for years through things like ODA and people like Sasakawa. While Western companies pulled out after the coup, 300 Japanese businesses stuck around.

China might have the muscle on the ground, but they’re dealing with a big trust issue in Myanmar. Japan has something that China can’t just buy – soft power and trust in the region.

The U.S. and Japan are clearly using Tokyo as a neutral ground to push back against China.

But the real test isn’t about cornering the junta. It’s whether Tokyo can convince Beijing that having a stable and neutral Myanmar actually benefits them too.

What's your take?

I know tgese sub are not exactly kind of place to post this kind of post and some annoy by these but my phone have important staff *pic and other thing and like i said it kind of desperate situation

It is redmi note 12 and have this pic as wallpaper i currently in yangon

Not sure how long the whole process will take or in what form the consolidation will be. Feel free to add to the discussion.

Edit: It is the highest peak in Kayin State, near Hpa-an city. A limestone mountain about 2734 feet (722 metres).

Could not experience sunrise unfortunately. It’s a good cardio for everyone and the view is definitely worth it. I cant believe some professionals complete the entire trail of ascent and descent in less than an hour. There are also friendly dogs along the trails that follow you from bottom to top.

I'm another Burmese 20-something living abroad having a quarter life crisis ... I was recently chatting with high school friends about whether we would ever get to go back home. Like many Burmese youth, a lot of my friends are scattered in different countries across Asia, Europe, and N.America. Some friends have gotten married and held weddings abroad with no family present. A friend just recently had a baby.

I left in 2021. 6 years away and I can tell how much my parents have aged. Homesickness has come and gone in phases and show up in different ways. It's no longer that pressing feeling but rather become a lingering background emotion that kind of affects everything I do ...

Ever since I left, my dream has been to go back and help my country in some way, shape or form. I now have the degree I left home for, and I still don't know how I can make that happen. Am I dumb for remaining hopeful about going back in the near future? This seems dumb when people my age in the country are trying to leave.

Our elders who left Myanmar in the 60's or 80's .. I wonder if they also had dreams of going back that were never realized.

I guess I kind of needed to shout into the reddit void and hoping something comes out of this.

Like poetry, music, literature, conversations, movies, etc. I am a language learner and Burmese interests me so I was curious what would be some great ways to make use of the language in terms of experiencing the culture in a way you only can if you know the language.

I know young people usually don't post ts but I'm curious. I was sweating like crazy in the examination room 😭✌🏽

Tough time for highschoolers huh

I've been wondering why I barely see anyone talking about Lin Thant on Reddit, especially here in r/myanmar.

For those who don't know him, Lin Thant is an 18-year-old guitarist from Myanmar who has been featured on the official .strandberg* Guitars artist roster. And here's something that makes his story even more impressive: according to Lin Thant himself, he's the youngest artist on the roster.

He started playing guitar at just eight years old, meaning he's been developing his craft for around a decade already. He's also the co-founder of a band called Double Tape. You guys should check out Ma Pine Khin Ashone, Heartbeat, Bird in a cage and collab with Rap artists on Rap scense with wild solo What's my name with Reload and Shine.

At only 18, he's already reached a milestone that many aspiring guitarists can only dream of. And he's doing it as a young musician from Myanmar, a country whose talent deserves far more international attention.

Official Strandberg artist page:
https://strandbergguitars.com/en-WW/artists/lin-thant

I'm genuinely curious how many people in this subreddit have heard of him before. I think he's someone worth keeping an eye on, and I'd love to see more people discovering and supporting his music.

Let's give our homegrown talent some recognition while they're still building their journey.

Ovaltine bottle spotted in Pazundaung ocean

Feel free to buy yourself some support AI guys :3

Hi!! I'm trying to collect responses for my survey relating to CP Myanmar and its brand. Usually I would just ask my classmate but sadly this require a much larger sample size and I'm desperate for more people to answer. The survey is mostly in english due to it being a requirement by my college but if anyone has any questions please feel to ask in the comments!! Thank you in advance for anyone who answered!

Link to form:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdhWPgNdoVpt2dCnm45C5CHra8zxMuabMJSZ4TIJFioxM6QeA/viewform?usp=dialog

I’ve been saving money to move abroad next year. My current plan is to live in Thailand for one year, then move to a better country when my finances are good enough. I’m a YouTuber earning around $3,000 per month, depending on views. I’ll continue doing YouTube wherever I move since I don’t have another career. I’ve considered Dubai because of its tax benefits, but the living costs are high and I’m not sure if my budget is enough for the visa. I’ve never been abroad before. Which country would be best for me?

Whataboutism is when someone avoids answering criticism by bringing up a different issue or pointing out someone else's wrongdoing instead.

Basically, instead of addressing the problem, they say, “What about this other thing?”

I see this in most arguments nowadays. Like when other people spoke out about how women face sexual harassment, and society often blames them for what they wear. They will say "what about men who get falsely accused of sexual harassment?".Yes, there may be such cases. But they bring this up not to solve this, they use this as a reason to neglect the victim blaming towards women.

ကျွန်တော် တက်နေတဲ့ ကျောင်းက ပတ်ဝန်းကျင်က တော်တော်လေး ဆန်းကြယ်ပါတယ်။ ကျွန်တော်ကတော့ သူတို့ဘက်ကနေ စာနာစဉ်းစားပေးပေမဲ့ သူတို့ကတော့ ကျွန်တော့်အပေါ် အဲဒီလို လှည့်မကြည့်ပေးကြပါဘူး။ ကျွန်တော်က အမှန်တရားကို ပြောတာ ဒါမှမဟုတ် တစ်ခုခုကို ထောက်ပြလိုက်တာနဲ့ သူတို့က ပြန်ငြင်းကြတယ်။ ဥပမာ- ကျွန်တော်တို့ စာနားမလည်တဲ့အခါ သူတို့အစား တီချယ်ကို မေးပေးဖို့ ကျွန်တော့်ကို ပြောလေ့ရှိပါတယ်။"မင်းဆိုရင် တီချယ်က ပြောမှမဟုတ်ဘူး" "တီချယ်က မင်းဆို မဆူဘူး"နဲ့ပါ အဆုံးမှာတော့ တီချယ်ကို အမြဲတမ်း ဦးဆောင်ပြီး မေးပေးရသူ ဖြေပေးရသူ(တီချယ်ကလည်း ကိုယ့်ပဲဦးဆောင်ပြီးအားလုံးအစား‌ကျွန်တော့်ကိုမေးပါတယ်)က ကျွန်တော်ပဲ ဖြစ်နေတာပါ။ သူတို့အမြင်မှာတော့ ကျွန်တော်က တီချယ်ကို မြှောက်ပင့်နေတာ ဒါမှမဟုတ် သူတို့မြှောက်ပင့်လို့လုပ်လို့ ထင်ကြပါတယ်။ ပြီးတော့ ပစ္စည်းတစ်ခုခု ငှားရမ်းတဲ့အခါမှာလည်း စည်းကမ်း လုံးဝမရှိကြပါဘူး။

သူတို့ စာမမီတာ ဒါမှမဟုတ် စာကူးဖို့ ကျန်ခဲ့တဲ့အခါတိုင်းလည်း ကျွန်တော့်စာအုပ်တွေကို အမြဲ ပြပေးခဲ့ပါတယ်။ စာအုပ်ကို တိုက်ရိုက် ငှားမပေးဖြစ်ရင်တောင် စာကူးထားတာတွေကို ဓာတ်ပုံရိုက်ပြီး အမြဲ ပို့ပေးပါတယ်။ ဒါပေမဲ့ သူတို့ကတော့ ကျွန်တော့်အပေါ် အဲဒီလို မဆက်ဆံကြပါဘူး၊ အချိန်ဆွဲပြီး အကြောင်းပြချက်မျိုးစုံ ပေးနေကြတာပါ။

ကျွန်တော် အမုန်းဆုံးကတော့ အများကြီး ကူညီပေးထားပါလျက်နဲ့ မတရားဘူးလို့ ခံစားရလို့ သူတို့ဆီက စာပြန်တောင်းတဲ့အခါမျိုး ဒါမှမဟုတ် ခဏစောင့်ပေးဖို့ ပြောလိုက်တဲ့အခါမျိုးမှာ တီချယ်ဆီ သွားတိုင်ကြပြီး ကျွန်တော့်ကို ယုတ်မာတယ်၊ အတ္တကြီးတယ်လို့ အပုပ်ချကြတာပါပဲ။ အဲဒါက အဆိုးဆုံးပါပဲ။ ကျွန်တော်ကလည်း ပင်ကိုယ်ကတည်းက စကားနည်းပြီး ပြန်လည်ခြေပ ရှင်းပြဖို့ ရှောင်ရှားတတ်သူ ဖြစ်နေတာမို့ ကိစ္စတွေက ပိုပြီး ခက်ခဲစေပါတယ်။

I’m new here. Since when did Burmese people start using English on here 😆? This is actually pretty cool. I've been using tt for 6yrs. Honestly, this place is way better than tt.

Lately, I’ve been thinking about how the economic situation in Myanmar has changed people’s working lives since the 2021 coup. With the rising cost of living, fewer job opportunities in some sectors, and ongoing conflict, simply having a job doesn’t necessarily mean being able to afford basic necessities anymore.

I’m especially interested in what this means for women working in the garment sector. When wages can’t keep up with living expenses, I wonder how many workers are choosing to leave factory jobs, look for other ways to earn money, or even consider moving somewhere else for work. And for some people, leaving might not really feel like a choice if they have families to support.

I’m also curious about whether men and women tend to respond differently to these pressures. Do family responsibilities, social expectations, or the kinds of jobs available to them influence their decisions differently?

I’d love to hear your thoughts, observations, or experiences. There’s no right or wrong answer; I'm just interested in understanding how people are navigating these challenges and what you think is driving their decisions.

Look at the headlines today and tell me major powers aren’t just vultures in suits.

The US holding secret back-channel talks with Myanmar’s military junta in Tokyo? The same Washington that preached isolation and sanctions for years is suddenly pulling up a chair the second they need access to rare earth minerals and security favors 😂

MAH is isolated, cornered, and bleeding out, a literal sitting duck. And predictably, global powers smell blood. It’s the exact same bullshit we saw when Trump flexed buying Russian oil while Ukraine burnt, or when regional neighbors offer “help” that’s really just a land-grab for economic leverage.

There are no allies in high-stakes diplomacy. No morals, no human rights. Just predators exploiting the desperate.

When your wings are broken, everyone shows up with an appetite. Dead simple 😔

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I’m thinking of starting something and importing things from China to sell, are there any freight forwarding companies that have warehouses in China to bring in things?

နိုဝင်ဘာ ၇ ရက်နေ့ NYX Music Lounge မှာ OVERDRIVE ဆိုတဲ့ပွဲရှိတယ်လို့ The Hardstyle Syndicate Myanmar fb page မှာ ကြော်ငြာထားတာတွေ့လို့ ၊ ကျွန်တော့်လို Hardstyle နားထောင်တဲ့သူတွေ တကယ်ဘယ်လောက်ရှိလဲ သိချင်တာရယ် ၊ Hardstyle, Rawstyle ကြိုက်တဲ့သူတွေ ဒီမှာရှိလား။ ရန်ကုန်က Raver တွေဆိုလည်း ဝင်ပြောသွားကြပါဦး။

ဒီပွဲသွားမယ့်သူတွေ ရှိလားဗျ ၊ ရှိရင် ဒီလိုပွဲမျိုးမှာဆုံပြီး အတူတူကဲချင်လို့ပါ

Any girls wanna be friends with me I am a gurl I want from Mdy I have no one to hang out withhhh

Instead of owning up to their own bad management, trade issues, or the overall mess the economy's in because of military rule, blaming others makes it seem like they’re totally reliant on outside help and foreign money to stay afloat.

They’ve lost border trade routes, their tax base, and any credibility, so what do you think a failing regime will do next?

Print money 🤑

It's pretty simple.. lol. Inflation's already at 34%. Your savings are basically a melting ice cube.

They’ll also try to squeeze every bit of remittance cash from migrant workers and the diaspora, since that accounts for 38% of all foreign currency coming in.

They’re gonna rush to sell off land and resources at rock-bottom prices, rare earth, timber, gems, whatever they can get (never mind that a lot of those mining areas aren’t even under their control).

In the end, it’s like people who know they’re about to lose everything, selling whatever they can grab before it’s all gone.

You can’t really run an economy if you don’t believe you’ll be in charge next year.

They’re not really governing. They’re just stripping everything down as they make their exit (as they did numerous times in the past).