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China attacks 'failed' US sanctions
- Subject: China attacks 'failed' US sanctions
- From: ausgeo@xxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 07 May 1997 05:14:00
Subject: China attacks 'failed' US sanctions against SLORC
China attacks 'failed' US sanctions against Burma
BEIJING, May 7 (AFP) - China Wednesday declared US economic sanctions against
Burma a failure, and warned that the imposition of such sanctions for
political motives was futile in the post-Cold War era.
The April 22 ban on new investments in Burma "seem to have failed," the
official China Daily said in a signed commentary.
The US imposed the investment ban citing rights abuses by the ruling military
junta and severe restrictions imposed on opposition leader Daw Aung San Suu
Kyi and her National League for Democracy (NLD).
But the China Daily said the Association of Southeast Asian nations had
brushed aside the sanctions, saying Burma's entry into the organisation would
proceed as expected.
"Even Japan and Australia, two close allies of the United States in the
Asia-Pacific region, said they would not follow the US example," it said.
"The isolation in which the US government finds itself on the Myanmar issue
may serve as a lesson when considering slapping economic sanctions on others."
Myanmar is the junta's official name for Burma.
Washington, which frequently criticises Beijing over human rights, imposed
economic sanctions on China following the brutal crackdown on the Tiananmen
Square pro-democracy demonstrations in June 1989.
"The United States should understand that in the post-Cold War era, the
practice of gaining political interests by randomly making use of economic
sanctions is bound to meet increasingly strong resistance," the commentary
said.
Sanctions against Burma will only aggravate tensions between Rangoon and
Washington and "will benefit no side," it added.