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China ranks as Myanmar's top investor in fiscal 2008-09

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Jul 14, 2009, 11:37 GMT


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abhirazaJul 26th, 2009 - 02:23:45

Hillary Clinton didn't mention anything about China, when she was in Phuket, Thailand at the ASEAN meeting. Freeing Aung San Suu Kyi was her main concern. If the USA really wants to have influence in Burma (and the rest of Asia), they have to play hardball with China )in spite of the T-bills!). It is a serious G2 game and China has grandiose empire-building geostrategic plans for South East Asia. In Burma they are building a gas pipeline and naval facilities on the west coast to obtain access to the Bay of Bengal. Their strategy is called 'pearl of strings'. Chinese civilization has always regarded the 'periphery' as populated by barbarians to be 'sinicized' if necessary (Xinjiang, Tibet, Tangut, Nanchao, ...). There are already a lot of recent chinese immigration (businessmen and 'advisers') to Burma. Populating a region with Han chinese is part of their old strategy. I predict that Burma will soon become a 'protectorate' of China (which includes HongKong, Singapore and Taiwan for me).

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