Obama's Presidency & Burma
US policies towards Burma are most unlikely to change in the short to medium term. Bush has invariably accepted the advice of the State Department on how to handle the military regime. Accordingly any change in the main thrust of US sanctions policy is most unlikely, though in the wake of the devastation of Cyclone Nargis and the developing humanitarian crisis in many other parts of Burma, notably the current famine in Chin State, we may expect a greater willingness by the new Administration to focus on humanitarian and even development assistance ... read more ...

Obama Presidency & the World

• Obamamania
• Who Will Run the World?
• Obama and India
• Obama's Asian Vision
• Obama and the Rise of the Rest
• Obama and Iran
• From Great Game to Grand Bargain
• Stay the Course in North Korea

Articles on US Elections '08

• A Conspiracy So Immense
• Why Barack Obama?
• Women and the American Presidential Campaign
• Race and the US Presidential Race
• The Palin Charade
• The Palin Non-Factor

*** Read more latest articles on http://burmadigest.info/