Over borders between Thailand and Burma, there is a clear difference: Burma territory is full of forest and army control: there are so many tourists or agents from various countries for each stake in Thailand's side.
Economically, China and India (US allay) are trying to influence Burma as much as they can. Actually, China officially have had $5 million trade agreements (and vast unofficial aid or loan) with Burma.
However, political situation of Burma is too complex to predict how Burmese economic situation will improve. Burma exports a lot of natural resources such as narctics and methamphetamine and sends officers for military training to Moscow and Beijing, and showed an interests in DPRK's nuke last year. US-drafted Security Council resolution was vetoed by Rossia and China.
According to Wall Street Journal, "the Association of South-East Asian Nations (ASEAN) Declared its support for the Rangoon regime against internal "insurgents," and the state news paper has carried reports of "U.S.-backed" terrorist bombs on its soil.
On the other hand, the junta's forcible policies have made resentiment among own citizens. Humanrights movemetns, ethnic groups' prtest, and democratic activites just reflect the junta's suppresion. Nonetheless, profitable national economic plans such as "logging, mining, pipeline-building" (drug deal too) might be difficult to advance without the junta's authoritative politics, because it is difficult to achieve such national interests without slavery (free) labor, or to compromise with each actor about the delopment planing that might cause destruction of natural environment in such a ethnic diversity.
Alomost all of Burmese citizens are really fed up with the junta, and amire the West.
OK, how do you think, folks?
Source: "On a far frontier" by Melik Kaylan
Feb 12, 2007, Wall Street Journal (Eastern edition)
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