Saturday, October 06, 2012

FOREIGN POLICY: BURMA

Obama Wishes India to Interfere in Burma... Burma Who?

The only reason that could motivate India to interfere in a clearly army dominated nation is the presence and support of China that the Burmese regime enjoys persistently. But then again, should India be cribbing to interfere anywhere and everywhere that Chinese presence exists (China even endorsed Burma’s November elections)? Clearly, the answer is no; and Obama very well knew that before too.

Then what exactly prompted him to bring out an utterly trivial Burma issue? The only reason due to which we guess Obama might have mentioned Burma in his speech was because he had been given more time than he had planned for. The choice to fill up time, ergo, would have been between discussing Chicago White Sox, his favourite baseball team, and Burma. Thankfully, he chose Burma...


Source : IIPM Editorial, 2012.

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