soc.culture.asian.american

ASEAN is only condemning burma because currently ASEAN
is negotiating a free trade agreement with european union
and are under pressure from the europeans.


"pluto" wrote in message news:lv5bg31ggqpg2fpo04t4omos28t1n2neuh@ ...
> Who Stands to Gain From Burma's Subjection?
> Oct 4th, 2007 by leftistmoon
>
>
> Below is a map of Burma/Myanmar. Let's take a look shall we.
>
> Those countries directly bordering Burma are India to the west and going north;
> China - northern and eastern borders; Laos - a bit on the middle eastern border;
> and, Thailand, easterly and southerly. Then due south - the waters of the Indian
> Ocean.
>
> Though the capital is Yangon (Rangoon - on the southern coast), the junta built
> a new city, Naypyidaw (Pyinmana) for their administrative 'offices' and the
> like, kind of midway between Yangon and Mandalay. (Naypyidaw is closer to
> Mandalay than Yangon). I was looking for it on Google and until I put in the
> specific name - Naypyidaw - it wasn't showing up on the map. Everything else was
> of course.
>
>
>
> Do you know what the single - largest - export is for Burma?
>
> Natural gas. $ BILLION
>
> Benefactors:
>
> Thailand = 20% of all electricity comes from Burma/Myanmar.
> China
> India
> Singapore
> Malaysia
> There are, of course, other resources: oil, natural resources - nickel, copper,
> and coal to gems like rubies and jade, timber. According to Der Speigel,
>
> Beijing's state-owned energy groups plan to exploit oil and gas fields off the
> Burmese coast and have already signed agreements with the junta.
>
> Another project in the works calls for the construction of 2,380 kilometers
> (1,480 miles) of oil and gas pipelines from Burma's western Rakhine State all
> the way to Kunming, the capital of China's southern Yunnan Province.
>
> So by far, the most current and certainly the greatest benefactor is China.
>
> This is the result of sanctions from 'the West' following the 1988 protests, the
> resultant crackdown by the military junta, and the massacre of thousands of
> Burmese.
>
> Who filled the gap, the void left by 'the West?'
>
> China. Burma's immediate neighbor.
>
> From Earthrights International comes these astonishing revelations:
>
> More than a million immigrants from throughout the People's Republic have
> already settled, more or less legally, in Burma.
>
> China mines nickel, copper and coal in Burma.
>
> 14 Chinese companies are building hydroelectric power plants.
>
> The trade between the two nations approached $ billion last year.
>
> The Chines yuan is treated as legal tender, and it is believed that
> approximately one-third (1/3) of the population of Mandalay is Chinese.
>
> But the most brutish of all Chinese imports: Weapons, and the other military
> materials the junta uses to subjugate their people, in the form of helicopters,
> aircraft, artillery guns, warships, and tanks from their northern neighbor.
> Warships? Burma has a navy!? Oh yeah. It's thought that Burma has spent around
> $2 billion worth of military hardware from China - alone. (Chile has been
> reported as selling weapons to Burma's junta. That's of interest since the widow
> & children of Chile's former president for life, Augusto Pinochet, were arrested
> today.)
>
> I think China will realize quickly just how much of a problem this will be for
> them. China's own track record of human rights violations and the suppressing of
> their own people, coupled with Chinese support and sanctioning of yet another
> "inhumane regime" whose very actions rival that of the Chinese will not go
> unnoticed. One of the greatest of economical endeavors for China - the upcoming
> Olympics - isn't far away, 2008 - just around the corner.
>
> The mission of Olympic Watch is to monitor the human rights situation in the
> People's Republic of China in the run-up to the 2008 Olympic Games and to
> campaign to achieve positive change in the lives of the people of China.
>
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