Myanmar Gets Away with Economic Lip Service From China
For one, Myanmar has just become the most persistent customer of the United Nation Security Council today, as its sentencing of freedom icon Aung San Suu Kyi to an 18-month of reclusion has earned it another ticket towards official condemnation. It used to be Israel, staunch raiders of territories of its neighbors, Lebanon and Palestine.
Fortunately for Myanmar, veto-wielding countries China and Russia posed stumbling block to the United Nation condemnation with China issuing statements that the western world should respect Myanmar’s sovereignty. And accordingly, other neighbor countries like India and Thailand forms a belt of protection and easement with China and Myanmar rest comfortably on this. But this is pointed out to be most economic in nature as Myanmar remains to be among the few countries in the eastern hemisphere to have been able to preserved vast portion of natural resources, in terms of lumber and minerals, and definitely China depends on this so much that now it gives the global lip-service.
This must be what colonialism looks like nowadays.
Conspicuously, the ASEAN secretariat is mum on this latest political storm brewing from the land of pagodas. Perhaps, it’s starting to get tired of Myanmar’s troubled ways.
Everybody gets tired somehow. Maybe the United nation will soon get numbed on Myanmar’s irreverence that it may just leave the issue there stale and unattended, to keep a blind eye. I hope not.
They just don't want Suu Kyi to run for office in next year's election, that's why. Politics!
Comment by Abaniko — August 13, 2009 @ 8:06 pm
Every player looks out for its own interest in the region and not what things ought to be, hence the proverbial lip service of China and other countries towards the issue.
Comment by bw — August 14, 2009 @ 1:45 am
the incarceration of Suu Kyi, and now her house arrest was already an antique issue...the western world seemed not to be interested to interfere. perhaps the lack of oil in that country gave them the reason to "respect its sovereignty".
Comment by curacha — August 14, 2009 @ 5:57 am
Mtanmar, I think, is being used as a pawn of sorts by China, just like N.Korea.
Comment by rudy — August 16, 2009 @ 8:11 am
To Niko: I forgot to mention that but news commentators think that it is the case.
Comment by Major Tom — August 16, 2009 @ 8:57 pm
To BW: But that redounds to encouraging the inanities of the military junta over there bro, China should be forewarned about this by the UN. it creates such a wall of protection that Myanmar does not deserve.
Comment by Major Tom — August 16, 2009 @ 8:58 pm
To Curacha: Haha...now that's to be straight to the point. If it had oil like Iraq, I bet America would be sending its frigates down there. But unfortunately, that is not the case.
Comment by Major Tom — August 16, 2009 @ 9:00 pm
To Rudy: Exactly bro, that's a certainty as I see it now. If one observes Myanmar nowadays, one could barely see how it survives on such a hermitic ways of governance. It turns out that China is right behind it that's why it's immune from every kind of sanctions that is imposed against it.
Comment by Major Tom — August 16, 2009 @ 9:02 pm