burma

India, Pakistan, or Burma could provide shorter transits for Chinese traffic to much of the world.

The building of Naypyidaw was done by Burma under the orders of its leadership.

Oh, I for sure think that North Korea and Burma are also terrible countries.

It's not Burma you know from 2008 Rambo.

Nazi and Soviet flags are obvious, as is the case for Yugoslavia which existed then and is no more, but the flags of Greece and Burma are contemporary as well.

You both seem to arguing with extremes ends of human settlement configuration - planned empty mega suburbs like this one in Burma and hunter-gatherer bands before the dawn of agriculture.

[1] There are even great accessible, affordable examples in Burma and Brazil.

It's also kind of capricious in where it intervenes - there was no real American interest in the Kosovo campaign, whereas in Burma horrible things are happening similar to what happened in Kosovo.

Half of Vietnam was Hindu until the 15th century, Burma never really existed (and to some extent still doesn't), similarly direct contact from the Pala Kingdom with Nanzhao is well evidenced by surviving images, documents and unmistakably Hindu carvings well within the borders of what is now modern China.

Re: affordability - I don't know about Burma or Brazil, but in the US, safe, medium-high density neighborhoods with walkable commercial districts and an active civic life are very expensive compared to the car-bound exurban cities in the same metropolitan area.

"For digital inclusion and a more inclusive future" as the author states in the article, I am also leading this[1] project for kids in Myanmar/Burma who literally stuck in the civil war between Myanmar Army and local rebel forces.[2] We are just a bunch of volunteers(refugees) from Myanmar who have been relocated to Norway because of the civil war.

This is true regardless of where an ideology falls on the oversimplistic "right-left" spectrum: North Korea, Fascist Italy, Communist Russia, Oligarchical-Capitalist Russia, Cambodia, North Vietnam, Burma, Communist China, pretty much the entire Middle East, etc.

Something like Burma, with better outcomes than it because of regression toward the mean.

My grandma used to tell me a similar story about her old country (Burma) except they used gold jewelry.

I live on the Thai border with Burma, and while it's possible it's still tricky.