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U.S. Is Moving Too Fast on Burma
July 15, 2012 / Michael J. Green, Daniel Twining
Washington Post
This article was published in the Washington Post. It can be read here in its original form.
“The heart of our [Asia] strategy, the piece that binds all the rest of it together, is our support for democracy and human rights,” Secretary of State Hillary Clinton declared last Monday. Two days later, the Obama administration lifted prohibitions on U.S. investment in Burma. American companies are now free to partner with the state-owned energy conglomerate — the Myanmar Oil and Gas Enterprise (MOGE) — whose revenue has underwritten the military regime’s repression of its people and ongoing wars against ethnic dissidents.
Michael Green is a senior adviser at the Center for Strategic and International Studies and an associate professor at Georgetown University. Daniel Twining is a senior fellow for Asia at the German Marshall Fund of the United States
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