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Much like Sudan's Darfur crisis, Myanmar's ongoing unrest is serving as ammunition for the "Beijing Genocide Olympics" critics, but China is unlikely to cease support for Myanmar's military regime.

China is coming under increasing international pressure over its support for Myanmar’s military regime. International nongovernmental organizations and center-right and liberal groups in the European Parliament and foreign governments (including the United States) are all calling for Beijing to penalize Myanmar’s regime — either by withdrawing financial assistance or by lifting its objection to the issuance of U.N. sanctions and official condemnations.

Akin to the Darfur crisis in Sudan, Myanmar’s latest unrest serves as ammunition for “Beijing Genocide Olympics” critics. Though Beijing will become more sensitive to how this issue affects its global image as a “responsible international stakeholder,” reasons based on energy assets and access, geopolitical buffer zones and domestic political stability likely will keep China from changing its fundamental stance on Myanmar. China remains more concerned about protecting its energy and buffer-zone interests than about international opinion.


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