Recent events suggest one possible explanation: Burma’s rulers have grown wary of China’s almost smothering embrace – a result of the country’s international isolation. Indeed, public protests against China’s commercial exploitation of Burma’s natural resources became so widespread that the government called a halt to construction by Chinese investors on the huge and environmentally damaging Myitsone Dam on the Irrawaddy River.
最近的事件显示了一种可能的解释：缅甸的当权者开始担心令人窒息的把持——而这又是该国国际孤立的结果。事实上，缅甸公众反对中国对缅甸自然资源的商业开发已成燎原之势，以至于政府不得不叫停中国投资者可能造成严重环境破坏的瓦底江密松大坝项目。