In the article “Myanmar: US wants puppet regime” it is reported, “Myanmar’s Military Government has accused the United States of plotting to install a puppet regime in the country.” This comes as a reaction to George W. Bush’s eighth State of the Union address before a joint session of Congress on Tuesday (23rd January) in which he said “that the US "will continue to speak out for the cause of freedom" in the South-East Asian country.”
This article gives a good idea of the worry that a sudden interest in UN resolutions on behalf of the USA brings to such a small country. The problem is that the major source for this worry is from the state owned newspaper in Myanmar. The article raises the issue of who would be best suited to intervene. The only quote from outside of this issue is from the Malaysian foreign minister who said, “I believe Myanmar will be hardened”. This is referring to the fact that a government accused of being tyrannical by the US is unlikely to engage with the greater global community.
I think the article is written with an overly negative bias against the United States. It takes for granted the validity of the quotes from the New Light of Myanmar newspaper and doesn’t try to examine the truth about life within that country. What it does do is question the usefulness of a possible involvement by the United Nations and shows the Malaysian foreign minister to be quite wise in suggesting that: “The Association of South-East Asian Nations (Asean), rather than the UN Security Council was in a better position to handle the Myanmar issue”.
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