Huge portions of Myanmar's economy are run by the so called Tatmadaw, the deep state/military which still formally and informally governs much of the country. As part of the "civilianisation" process, it has become increasingly more obvious that the need to improve economic progress can only be achieved through the transfer of military-controlled sectors of the economy into the civilian hands.
Myanmar's military runs huge swathes of the economy from clandestine and illegal logging programs in the North, to many mines and industrial complexes, to even some banking and service sectors. Over 140 companies in Myanmar are either formally or informally governed by the Tatmadaw, a huge portion of the economy. Often this has enabled it to avoid sanctions from both external and internal sources, relying on income from legitimate matters to avoid punitive measures.
In practice this will be less a transfer and more simply a rebrand, with many of the companies still being run by the same leadership, merely now reporting to the civilian government rather than the military government. Aung San Suu Kyi's government will supervise the creation of the Economic Transfer Department, a temporary government bureau responsible for reintegrating these corporations into the national economy.
Crucially, though, no privatisation plan has been announced. Western observers have repeatedly hoped that Myanmar would privatise and open its economy - but this move shows no such plan. Instead, the civilian government will likely keep the vast majority, privatising only the unprofitable businesses, and perhaps selling off some businesses to key allies. They are likely to be used as bargaining tools, for example in a future trade deal with India, access to this portion of Myanmar's economy will be high value.
The move will likely help economic growth and be politically popular, and continue the democratisation and civilianisation process.
Backstory, between the ages of about 14-22 (I’m 25 now) I was a huge troll. Usually, in my mind, I did it to people deserving. This is important though, because I feel then and now, I still couldn’t see what I was doing was wrong. And this is why I question if I am TA.
So I was downtown, had freshly come out of the closet and was going on my first ever public date with a man. It was going well and we decided to go on a walk while holding hands. Not 200 feet from the restaurant, a loud group of cars passes by us and someone screams “FAGGOTS!!!” From one of the cars. Only one car in the group has his window down. It’s a Dodge Dart and I immediately take note of the stickers on the back window.
I am suddenly enraged by this. Unfortunately for this person, I am also pretty involved in the car community, and fairly well known. My date tells me to calm down about it and just drop it. I told him I dropped it and it was no big deal.
But I get home and jump on Facebook and make a post about it in the local car page. The local dodge club admits to being downtown, and finds out the person who did it. They forced the kid to message me and apologize. He does send a half assed apology and that was it. But over the next few days, he was also enraged by my post. Still spewing hatred against me being gay via private chats that people sent to me. Hoping I would get AIDS (lol skip right past HIV and just get full blown AIDS) and saying comments like gays “diddle kids” and so on.
So I tapped into my old troll habits, and had some friends keep tabs on the kid. Basically screen grabbing everything he said that was any bit sexist, racist, homophobic. We did this for about 7 months. I learned he was in the military and worked a security officer job. I had a friend that was in his squadron who was able to get me his commanders email.
We took all of these screenshots, him admitting the faggot incident, and did a mass media dump to his security company and to his commander.
His security company fired him pretty soon after, and sent out an amendment to their social media policy, which someone sent to me. And I found out later that he received an LOR from his squadron. Which is a pretty serious thing in the military. I’m not sure what his punishment was, but I’m not sure he is in the military anymore.
The guy on the date with me didn’t work out, but we are still friends, I finally told him what I did as revenge. And he told me I was crazy going that far and that I
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