then, we should ready to play "petak umpet " with china, ask : are we ready?????
It is very possible that these mf would intervene, Myanmar is one of their backyard, and they have a lot of backyards. At various times in history China launched invasion to Myanmar for their interest but mostly only temporarily, never long-term occupation.
Let's face reality, ASEAN is disfunctional, the organization has no balls and there will never be, because we castrate ourselves with "ASEAN way" of non-intervention. But what about foreign countries? the irony is that ASEAN member cannot intervene one another, but every other world powers can, genius, what a frickin genius system. China is using ASEAN against ASEAN, since nobody can intervene the policy of one another, China can easily use divide and conquer to dominate ASEAN one by one, that's why their diplomat clearly declare that China will resolve every dispute via "bilateral relations", textbook divide and conquer.
The day China invade Southeast Asia, what will happen is this: Myanmar, Cambodia and Laos will join China from the beginning, China will rush Philippines and Vietnam and will get bogged in one or both of them, Thailand will switch side pretending to be forced, Malaysia and Singapore will do the same but at a later point after being attacked and Singapore in particular will cooperate with China to facilitate attack on Indonesia.
So the key of Southeast Asia is Indonesia, we are the only one with the individual potential to turn the tide against foreign powers and gain Southeast Asia back. But in order to achieve that, we have be 1. powerful, 2. decisive, 3. pragmatic, all of which is currently not the condition of ours due to corrupted, crooked self-serving old men, and another set of people so naive that they believe in diplomatic utopia where talks and BS will win the day instead of power.
