The sense among ordinary Burmese that the Chinese were looting the country’s resources has led to an anti-China backlash, including problems with a copper mine in Monywa and the cancellation last year of the Myitsone hydroelectric dam. John Pang, the Chief Executive of CARI, a research organization based in Malaysia, says that today’s transitional Myanmar/Burma is “a game the Chinese gave away.”
这些与缅甸建交的机会之所以存在，是因为登盛政府一直故意疏远中国——它是军政府长时期以来的赞助人及保护者。普通的缅甸人持有这样一种观念——即中国过去一直在抢劫本国的资源，这种观念引发了强烈的反华回应，包括望濑县铜矿及去年叫停密松水电站大坝项目等问题。位于马来西亚的研究组织CARI的董事长彭润年（John Pang）所说，今天处于过渡期的缅甸是“中国出局不玩的一个游戏”。