Monday, September 10, 2007

[PINR] 10 September 2007: Pipeline Politics: India and Myanmar

9th sept 2007
 
how the indian government screwed up again and let myanmar fall into china's clutches.
 
these guys are utterly incompetent. they were mouthing inanities about ang san suu kyi and democracy, while the chinese showed up with money and weapons for the junta.

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Pipeline Politics: India and Myanmar
Drafted By: Gideon Lundholm
http://www.pinr.com

Recent developments in the gas field projects of Myanmar have served to highlight the intense resource diplomacy that is ongoing in the region. The government of Myanmar withdrew India's (under the Gas Authority of India Limited or GAIL) status of "preferential buyer" on the A1 and A3 blocks of its offshore natural gas fields and instead declared their intent to sell the gas to PetroChina. The offshore gas fields of the Shwe project in the Bay of Bengal have estimates of 4.8 trillion cubic feet (TcF) for the current blocks with more exploration ongoing. The controlling interests in the two blocks are Daewoo International (60 percent), O.N.G.C. Videsh Ltd (20 percent), GAIL Ltd (10 percent) and Korea Gas Corporation (10 percent).

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1 comment:

ramesh said...

This is in keeping with Nehruvian / kangress policy of “India Shrinking.” India has been on a state of perpetual withdrawal from Burma, as from everywhere else. Shortly after Burma’s independence, the govt. their booted out all the Indians from the country, while India looked on -- this is our favorite pose. (In the 1930s Rangoon was almost an Indian-majority city) Pls note that only the Indians were booted out, not the Chinese, although these are equally unpopular. The Burmese were perhaps the first to realize that the government of India likes being kicked on its arse (to be followed by the Chinese, Bangladeshis, Bhutan, Nepal, Malaysia, Sri Lanka, etc. etc Nothing spread likes good news).
Then came the Coco Islands disaster, which now has a Chinese military intelligence base on it, kind courtesy govt. of Myanmar. This extremely strategic piece of real estate [Coco Islands in the Indian Ocean are a part of the Andaman island arc.] had come under India’s lot after independence till Nehru decided to return them to Myanmar.
Myanmar under its various rogue juntas has consistently followed an anti-India policy.The Chinese had even used Burmese territory in 1962. The country today is more or less a Chinese dependency, with massive Chinese immigration in places like Mandalay. And the tragedy is that Burma along with the rest of SE Asia is culturally / spiritually an extension of India (not of Han china).

9/10/2007 1:50 PM

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