Obama Burma

Clinton to Burma: Rewarding Democrats, Punishing Tyrants

Doug Bandow | Posted 02.02.2012

Doug Bandow

Engaging Burma may encourage that state to continue on a more independent course. The regime isn't likely to dump its patron -- China is too close. However, any distance between Naypyidaw and Beijing would be a positive.

India and China Greedy in Burma; Obama Scolds

Betwa Sharma | Posted 05.25.2011

Betwa Sharma

Even as President Barack Obama endorsed India's candidacy for the U.N. Security Council, he scolded New Delhi for not being tough on its neighbor, Burma.

Burma's Nyan Win Visits Washington, Signals Softening Of U.S. Policy

washingtonpost.com | John Pomfret | Posted 05.25.2011

For the first time in nine years, the United States allowed Burma's foreign minister to come to Washington, a sign of softening U.S. policy toward the...

Obama, Burmese Monks Call For Release Of Aung San Suu Kyi

Hanna Ingber Win | Posted 05.25.2011

Hanna Ingber Win

Burmese monks talk to HuffPost about Suu Kyi's arrest, repression in Burma and the state of the democracy movement about a year and a half after the Saffron Revolution.

Washington Post: Is It Time For U.S. To Reach Out To Burma's Junta?

washingtonpost.com | Posted 05.25.2011

PRESIDENT OBAMA'S inaugural address made the world's tyrants a proposition. "We will extend a hand," Mr. Obama said, "if you are willing to unclench y...