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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsFYI: DJT's latest travel ban includes the nation of Burma, which was renamed a quarter-century ago and now is known as
Myanmar. Isn't there a fact-checker in this WH?
Skittles
(169,646 posts)writerJT
(467 posts)The name change occurred after a coup. The US officially recognizes Burma.
In 2012, during a visit to the country, then-President Barack Obama used both Burma and Myanmar. An adviser to Myanmars president called that very positive and said it was an acknowledgement of Myanmars government.
Washingtons response to the coup seemed designed to highlight old criticisms, with both Secretary of State Antony Blinken and President Joe Biden pointedly avoiding the countrys legal name.
The United States removed sanctions on Burma over the past decade based on progress toward democracy, Biden said in a statement.
https://apnews.com/article/myanmar-burma-different-names-explained-8af64e33cf89c565b074eec9cbe22b72
Botany
(76,424 posts)
. part of the Nation of India and spoke of the African country of Nambia instead Namibia in 2017.
He is functionally clueless. One of the writers or producers on his fake TV show the apprentice
is on record that he is just about illiterate and they had to stop filming the show @ times to have
somebody change his diaper and clean him up too.
malaise
(292,926 posts)Ask the Gulf of Mexico
CanonRay
(15,955 posts)But he uses the 1939 Encyclopedia Brittanica.
Clouds Passing
(7,049 posts)ananda
(34,458 posts)They don't care about nations that are not like South Africa.