But that policy may no longer be tenable, because it is in China’s interest to find an effective alternative to a brutal crackdown, which would only remind the world vividly of the massacres in Rangoon in 1988 and in Tiananmen Square the following year. With some international celebrities already keen to start a campaign to boycott the Beijing Olympics because of China’s support for some of the world’s most repressive and incompetent regimes, a military crackdown in Burma is the last thing the Chinese authorities can afford.
但是那个政策也许已经站不住脚了，因为寻找到避免血腥镇压发生的有效替代解决方案符合中国的利益，一场血腥的镇压只会让整个世界鲜活地回忆起1988年发生在仰光以及接下来的一年发生于天安门广场的大屠杀。鉴于一些国际知名人士已经因为中国支持世界上某些最最残酷地镇压百姓以及不称职的政权而掀起抵制北京奥运会的运动，缅甸发生军事镇压是中国当局最不愿意看到的事情。