MYANMAR: Sandwiched between China & India and gaining from both

News Type: Opinion — Seeded on Sat Feb 2, 2008 8:04 AM EST

Article Source: southasiaanalysis.org

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Myanmar which has common boundaries with both China in the east and India in the west is crucial to both these nations in pursuance of their strategic, security, military and economic interests. Myanmar is exploiting this situation and is pitting one against the other for deriving maximum benefit from both. Myanmar, despite being impoverished by its isolationist policies and sanctions of the west, is wooed by the neighbouring countries, for its mineral wealth, energy resources (oil) and timber.

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"Chinese Strategists see Myanmar occupying the same place in the Chinese calculus of deterrence vis-à-vis India in South –South East Asia that Pakistan does in South-South West Asia" - J. Mohan Malik (Pioneer 19 December 2001).

"China's policy in South East Asia is a radical departure from all of prior history. It is a policy of intervention and naval adventurism seeking the subservience of mainland South East Asia to Chinese national interests. Accordingly China patronises autocracies in Burma and Vietnam" – Stephen B.Young and Arthur Waldron (FEER June 6, 2002).

"Positioned between rival powers India and China, both nations view Burma as the ideal buffer state to balance the power of the other" – Burma Campaign UK August 2005.

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