India’s Burma Dilemma
India is doing in Burma what the US and European countries have long been willing to do: trump rhetoric about democracy and human rights with policies that serve their strategic interests. If the EU and the US want India to act according to its stated moral values when these appear to conflict with its vital national interests, they had better be prepared to do the same.
The world has been horrified by graphic images of the latest crackdown by Myanmar’s military junta. But the bullets and clubs unleashed on Buddhist monks have worked. The monks have retreated, and an eerie normalcy has returned to Yangon (Rangoon), Myanmar’s principal city and former capital.