http://www.dvb.no/news/foreign-investment-in-burma-%e2%80%98down-70%e2%80%99/10748 Latest news, business, comment and features from the leading independent Burmese media outlet Fri, 10 Feb 2012 09:02:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.dvb.no/news/foreign-investment-in-burma-%e2%80%98down-70%e2%80%99/10748/comment-page-1#comment-4786 PB Publico Fri, 16 Jul 2010 04:15:16 +0000 http://www.dvb.no/?p=10748#comment-4786 The junta is quite clever in some ways for its survival, particularly by playing China, India and Thailand (ASEAN by associatil) against the rest of the world community. But that cleverness for them is follishness for us people, for simply being an unbalanced relatioaship (allowing economic imperialism for the preferred associates), the very basis of longivity for the junta, and so the continued loss of personal freedoms and equitable opportunities for all. The present weakness of Burmese economy, to me at any rate, will persist for a longer period of time by virtue of incompetency of economic management, and bribery and corruption rampant in the government aparatus (presumably prevalent after the election also). If this is bad for the junta, it should be an hard-earned opportunity for the people. What kind of opportunity? It would all depend ... The junta is quite clever in some ways for its survival, particularly by playing China, India and Thailand (ASEAN by associatil) against the rest of the world community.
But that cleverness for them is follishness for us people, for simply being an unbalanced relatioaship (allowing economic imperialism for the preferred associates), the very basis of longivity for the junta, and so the continued loss of personal freedoms and equitable opportunities for all.
The present weakness of Burmese economy, to me at any rate, will persist for a longer period of time by virtue of incompetency of economic management, and bribery and corruption rampant in the government aparatus (presumably prevalent after the election also).
If this is bad for the junta, it should be an hard-earned opportunity for the people.
What kind of opportunity? It would all depend …

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