Flying and Nazi Malays Edition.
A general thread for the discussion for all things happening in Southeast Asia. What a year it has been. Forest fires in Borneo now. Border skirmishes with Thailand and Cambodia. Vietnam mimicking South Korean chaebols. Singapore begging its citizens to have kids. Malaysia sending Rohingya refugees back to Myanmar while it is still in a civil war.
All the while the heat is cooking us now.
What goes on in Southeast Asia?
>>2902566What isn't? The 2nd pic is a Malay scholar who claimed anicent Malays learned how to fly and taught the Chinese how to do (wuxia's qigong) while Malaysia is deporting Rohingya refugees and this straight up Nazi showed up to harass Rohingya activists.
>>2902560Relevant to thread, anyone thinking anwar is funding jihadists in southern thailand?
Last month they creamed 5 paramilitaries. Now they attacked 72 places at once.
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/thailands-southern-insurgency-leaves-villagers-trapped-cycle-fear-2026-08-28/ Thoughts on Bougainville independence? They overwhelmingly won the referendum and the deadline is next year. Hopefully West Papua achieves it too.
>>2902601To be fair it’s Thailand, if you don’t like the government, wait five minutes, the military will take care of it
>>2902714West Papua needs it more than anyone
>>2902721Currently it’s a far right populist cringe part backed by the military again. They’re doing a shit job considering mass shootings also skyrocketed. I suspect they will attack Cambodia once again to save face. Nothing better than a war to distract the public.
Anyone here from Thailand? Any class-based ideas or plans on how to end the prostitution (legal rape) industry? Surely the only way is to abolish the regime.
what's been going on in indonesia? the riots and shit make it look like the weakest link in america's south east asia strategy. being one of the first postcolonial nations got them jakarta methoded, any chance they're going to flip red now the empire's collapsing?
>>2903035It’s still illegal to be ML so most of them that are will publicly present themselves as anarchists
>>2902928I wonder if this will lead to a gun crackdown. They are way to common, to be fair.
>>2903034>the commanderHoly shit. I was going to say 'why did he even bother to take the rest of the squad?', but the answer is evident, to hold his spare guns.
>>2903035Open Society color revolution to stop Indonesia from trading with China
>>2903248I’m sure the vast majority are genuine anarchists, but the survivors of the PKI genocide and their kin who are political are going to blend in with said anarchist majority
>>2903251even if they're anarchists a successful revolution is going to organise its emergent state on marxist principles. anarcho syndicalism doesn't solve basic issues like feeding truck drivers that drive between communes they don't belong to or inequalities created by differing levels of economic development.
>>2903661I haven’t kept up with trends in vanguard anarchism, maybe that’s the general direction , I don’t know though, that’s wishful projection
>>2903662it's not the vanguard that you need to worry about: decentralised systems of labor vouchers are inherently less efficient than currency so the trade union ends up needing a central bank, and capitalism only develops extractive industry so you end up needing taxes and cadres to administer social services in underdeveloped regions.
>>2903698Especially in Indonesia, even with West Papua and East Timor independent you’d have to deal with as much if not more neglected countryside than Mao in 1949
>>2902605malaysia has made no claim to the region and has offered both assistance in economically developing southern thailand and to act as a mediator in the conflict.
thailand's counter insurgency has been a spectacular failure with shocking missteps like the army killing 80 people in backs of military trucks during a crackdown in 2004.
there's no proof of malaysian interference: this conspiracy theory is directly attributable to the thai military, who's increasingly reactionary juntas have not addressed the material causes of the conflict and have only exacerbated it.
>>2903035Honestly subianto is basically trying to copy modi. He hung out with china just recently. He basically wanted to receive support from both, but is so stupid he fumbled both.
>>2912087What’s the point in even calling it a republic when you’re larping as the king of old (who was a french puppet)? Why not say it’s the royal government in exile at that point? Is he not related to the last ruling dynasty? Is the US based Vietnamese diaspora schizophrenic like every American that pretends to be politicized?
>>2912096He does claim himself as the descendant of one of the prince of the dai viet from around 1300, but the movement itself has been completely made up in the US from nothing, twenty years after the vietnam war already ended, with help from the US government, the only government with Ukraine (not joking btw) that somewhat recognize their existence
As for the vietnamese diaspora, he was personally implicated in helping refugees from south vietnam settle in the US, and they voted him president of the "third republic of vietnam", so he did help them, they're not just retards
>>2912128It just seems shoddy and haphazard even for being wholly artificial
is it true that the Ottomans controlled even Indonesia?
>>2912161I’m sure their merchants went everywhere but the Ottomans weren’t ever going to conquer the Safavids or the Mughals. They couldn’t even deal with Greeks, Serbs, and Armenians, how are they going to deal with millions of Hindus better than the Mughals?
>>2913226Probably not Subianto literally sold the Indonesian airspace to America
Philippines just banned discord
>>2919314But why? God SEA politics is such a clown show.
>>2903034Aren't the FDD proxies for the West?
>>2924061Singapore and Japan are the most glazed Asian countries by burger midwits which just exposes their fascism further, as if there was even a need.
>>2903034This war has proved that China, and Russia also have no moral either. They are just lesser evil than the west at their's best.
>>2930240To be fair, myanmar has been in a grinding civil war literally since Aung San (the father) was assassinated, anything going on for decades like that gets normalized
>>2930240>The way to save the working class is to intervene in a bloody war to get more countries and bombs involved in an already existing clusterfuckWelcome back Hugo Haase!
>>2932104>Recently, when covering an investment dispute between a border-area kibbutz in Israel and a Chinese investment fund, some media outlets claimed that “China prohibits investment in Israel.” >The Embassy of China in Israel has issued a clarification on this matter through Channel 12.>>2932104
>After the outbreak of the Gaza conflict on October 7, 2023, China adjusted the travel risk level for areas within Israel in line with international practices. As the situation has eased, areas classified as extremely high risk (red) have been significantly reduced and are now limited to small areas around the north border and along the Gaza Stripe border.
>Strictly limiting personnel movements and economic activities in extremely high-risk areas is an international practice. >Restrictions on economic activities in small, extremely high-risk areas should not be confused with the normal economic and trade exchanges between China and most areas in Israel.
>China encourages Israeli friends to engage with us in various forms of economic and trade cooperation, and hopes that all sectors will actively safeguard China-Israel relations and play an active role in advancing bilateral friendship and practical cooperation.So do all of us.
https://il.china-embassy.gov.cn/eng/sgxw/202602/t20260213_11857983.htm >>2932119Rvzzia and China have already intervened by materially supplying the junta with weapons
https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/se-asia/philippines-defends-jet-setter-gen-zs-appointment-as-head-of-agency-managing-poverty-issuesEvery day in pinoy land is a joke
Philippines defends jet-setter Gen Z’s appointment as head of agency managing poverty issues>27 year old>no experience >daughter of the president’s friend<immediately became head of a national agency Malacanang Palace on Oct 20 defended the appointment of Zofia Canlas as commissioner of the Presidential Commission for the Urban Poor (PCUP), amid public scrutiny over her lavish lifestyle and alleged lack of relevant experience for the role.
A biology graduate of De La Salle University in 2024, Canlas drew criticism over her “lavish” trips abroad, including to France, Italy, Greece, and other countries. Critics also questioned whether her lifestyle aligned with the mandate of the commission she serves.
PCUP commissioners serve as a bridge between underprivileged urban communities and the national government. They also help negotiate between the government and informal settler families who may be required to vacate the land on which their homes stand.
Online records show that her supposed father, Jose Marcell Canlas, is an assistant secretary at the Office of the Executive Secretary.
Palace Press Officer Claire Castro dismissed the criticisms, saying Canlas’ social status and age should not disqualify the 27-year-old from the position.
>>2936897Shit like this is why you still have people joining the CPP NPA NDF even as they lose the guerrilla war, the political situation is insane and none of them even try with land reform
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