Stalemate: Autonomy and Insurgency on the China-Myanmar Border Ong Andrew
Stalemate: Autonomy and Insurgency on the China-Myanmar Border Ong Andrew Stalemate reveals the history and contemporary politics of the United Wa State Army (UWSA), Asia's strongest insurgent army…
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Stalemate: Autonomy and Insurgency on the China-Myanmar Border Ong Andrew
Stalemate reveals the history and contemporary politics of the United Wa State Army (UWSA), Asia's strongest insurgent army on Myanmar's border with China. The Wa polity engages rather than evades these surrounding states, yet struggles to fit into their registers of sovereignty and statehood.Andrew Ong examines political culture among Wa elites and people, UWSA external relations, and capital flows with neighboring China, showing how Wa autonomy is enacted through careful navigation of complex borderland geopolitics and the shadow economy. This ethnographic tale recounts how a highland group, often dismissed as rebels or narcotraffickers, maintains a relational autonomy between two powerful lowland states.
He analyzes the seeming stalemate between the Myanmar state and the UWSA as one of tactical dissonance--adopting simultaneous postures of authority
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