Burma's "Mixed Bag"

After the Obama administration announced a new policy of “engagement” with odious military regimes last year, Burma went back to relative obscurity. Engagement yielded the predictable result (nothing), and other issues — namely various manifestations of uncouth behavior emanating from Beijing – took over as the spangliest thing on the Asian landscape in recent months. But while attention was focused elsewhere, Burma’s malignant generals have steadily worked to establish themselves as an ever greater threat to regional peace and stability, and an even heavier blight on the Burmese people.