Earlier this month, as more than 900 executives from across the globe gathered in the complex for Myanmar’s first ever World Economic Forum, the Chinese presence was conspicuously absent. According to the official WEF list, only 16 participants were from mainland China. For decades after the founding of the People’s Republic, American foreign policy was obsessed by the question of “who lost China?” Today in Beijing the question being asked by Chinese mandarins and Communist party luminaries is “who lost Burma?” “We said thank you very much to the Chinese for their help and then we asked them to leave,” said one adviser to a Burmese minister.
Posted on: Tue, 18 Jun 2013 06:26:40 +0000
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