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Burma fading

Posted on the May 14th, 2008

A justifiable rage:

You don’t have to be cynical to do foreign policy, but it helps. A sigh of relief rose over the west’s chancelleries on Monday as it became clear that the Chinese earthquake was big – big enough to trump Burma’s cyclone.

Read more here (“As Burma dies, our macho invaders sit on their hands” by Simon Jenkins, The Guardian, May 14, 2008).

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