Waterborne traffic between Yunnan and Thailand is expected to resume soon, with armed Chinese guards.To some neighbours, armed Chinese patrols taking on river pirates and insurgents (much of the drug business is linked to border insurgencies in Myanmar) conjures up images of gunboat diplomacy.
At the time, the US military countered that its detention operations were valid, and that similar practices had been deployed by other forces against insurgencies – such as the British in Northern Ireland, the Israelis in Gaza and the West Bank, and the Syrian and Egyptian regimes.
There's a similar lack of curiosity in the public arena into the recent career of Australian counter-insurgency figure David Kilcullen, offered fawning profiles in the press celebrating his apparent skills in defeating insurgencies in Iraq and Afghanistan while working for the Pentagon.
As the eurozone crisis continues, anti-establishment insurgencies like the SNP's are surfacing all over Europe: nationalist, populist, separatist, left or right.
This week the main student armed group agreed to a formal ceasefire, as most of the ethnic insurgencies along the border with Thailand already have.
The danger for Labour is that the nationalist assault it has faced in this election could be to some degree repeated in the next one south of Carlisle.Both insurgencies should worry Mr Cameron, too.
Al-Qaeda has reportedly tapped into the illicit diamond trade in west Africa and has promoted insurgencies across the Sahel (the border region between desert and savannah).
Even so, it is unclear whether Burmese reforms and Thai generosity will be enough to extinguish one of the world's longest-running insurgencies.
For decades the army, dominated by ethnic Burmese, has fought insurgencies here.
For most Peruvians, Mr Garcia is an unwelcome reminder of a past nightmare: an irresponsible populist, he bequeathed hyperinflation and a shrivelled economy, as well as unchecked guerrilla insurgencies.
Hence the UNLF's rather lacklustre record of violence, given its undoubted capability.It is true that Manipur's insurgencies are rackets.
