For Thant, this strategic competition is worrying. The “crossroads through Burma,” he argues, cannot “be a simple joining up of countries,” because the regions of “China and India that are being drawn together over Burma are among the most far-flung parts of the two giant states, regions of unparalleled ethnic and linguistic diversity….isolated upland societies that were, until recently, beyond the control of Delhi or Beijing.”
而对于吴丹敏来说，这场战略竞争是令人忧虑的。他认为，“这些穿越缅甸的公路”不可能“意味着各国就此连通了起来”，因为“中国和印度两国与缅甸接壤的地区都属于这两个大国最为边远的地区，其语言文化都（与中央地区）差异极大……那些隔绝在崇山峻岭之间的社会群体至今都超脱于德里或者北京的掌控之外。