In 1885, during an earlier era of great power competition in Asia, Lord Randolph Churchill, Winston Churchill’s father, impulsively annexed Burma to the British Raj in India following the Third Anglo-Burmese War. Thant Myint-U, a leading historian of contemporary Burma (and the son of former United Nations Secretary-General U Thant), likened Churchill’s move to “throwing Burma off a cliff.”
在1885年，在亚洲大国博弈刚刚揭幕之时，温斯顿·丘吉尔的父亲，兰道夫·丘吉尔爵士，在第三次英缅战争中断然将缅甸并入英国在印度的统治之下。对此第三任联合国秘书长，缅甸外交官吴丹（1961~1971年在任）之子，当代缅甸史研究的领军人物吴丹敏将丘吉尔的行为比作“将缅甸抛下悬崖”。