NEWS - India Says China Installing (r)

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So Burma is playing a role in regional nuclear arm race though the 
generals in Burma never know what is Nuclear.


>India Says China Installing Equipment in Myanmar
>
>          Reuters
>          04-JUN-98
>
>          NEW DELHI, June 4 (Reuters) - Indian
>          Defence Minister George Fernandes said
>          on Thursday that China had been helping
>          Myanmar install surveillance and
>          communications equipment in some of its
>          islands in the Bay of Bengal. 
>
>          Fernandes, in reply to a question, told the
>          lower house of parliament that Chinese
>          personnel have been visiting Myanmar to
>          install the system. 
>
>          ``They (Myanmar authorities) have further
>          informed that the monitoring facilities are
>          being utilised for surveillance of their
>          'Exclusive Economic Zone','' he added. 
>
>          Last month Fernandes said China had
>          built a sophisticated electronic
>          surveillance base in Myanmar's Coco
>          Islands, from where Beijing could monitor
>          activities along India's eastern coast. 
>
>          Myanmar denied the allegations and
>          China's foreign ministry expressed
>          ``utmost grief and resentment'' over
>          Fernandes' comments.