Chinese and Burmese Tensions Are Dangerously High

     An increasingly violent situation has worsened in the past week in the borderlands of China and Burma. In the Kokang region of Burma (Myanmar), tensions have been rising over the past months as the Myanmar National Democratic Alliance Army, an ethnically Chinese guerilla separatist group, began to attack Burmese army units in the border town, Laukkai. An estimated 60,000 ethnic Chinese citizens of Kokang have fled the border into China's Yunnan province.


     About a week ago, a bomb was dropped inside Chinese territory, just over the border. The Chinese government has blamed the Burmese military as the ones who dropped the bomb, which killed 5 field workers in the small Chinese town. Burmese officials denied responsibility over the bombing, but expressed "deep sorrow" for the incident and agreed to cooperate in a joint investigation.


     Although violence has steadily been creasing in Kokang, this is the first time the fighting has led to Chinese civilian casualties on their side of the border. As the MNDAA continues to fight the Burmese army, it is likely that more of the violence will spill onto the Chinese side of the border, as Burmese forces tried to repel them. The only place the MNDAA could safely go, if not successful, is over the border into China.
   


https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2015/03/17/burm-m17.html

Lost fortress of Genghis- or Chinggis, or whatever- Khan found

Mongolian and Japanese archeologists have unearthed a fortress dating back to the 13th century. The fortress, located in western Mongolia, belonged to the great Mongol leader, Genghis Khan. The find was led by Koichi Matsuda, a professor at Osaka University in Japan. The team of archeologists were following descriptions left in a Toaist Chinese book written at the time that Genghis Khan was alive. Wood from ships discovered at the site were dated back to the 12th century, and bones collected at the site dated back to the 14th century. This discovery is part of an ongoing search to find the tomb of Genghis Khan, which is to this day still unknown. Those who buried Genghis Khan were instructed to kill all those they crossed on the way to his burial, and even committed suicide after burying him in an unmarked tomb so that no one could locate it. The search for his tomb has been an obsession for archeologists and historians for centuries. Genghis Khan, formerly named Temujin, led the Mongol Empire for 20 years, and is believed to be in a direct line of .5% of the world's population today as he fathered hundreds, if not thousands of children during his life.


The belief is that the discovery of the fortress will help aid in the finding of Khan's tomb, and also provide a look into the importance of Mongol rule in Asia and the manner in which it connected civilizations that effect modern societies to this day.


http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/lost-genghis-khan-fortress-unearthed-western-mongolia-1490058