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...month, and Marshal Petain's feeble puppet regime, based in the French resort of Vichy, had other worries than French Indochina (Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia). Britain, threatened by a Nazi invasion, could devote little more than some Churchillian rhetoric to the defense of Singapore, Malaya, Hong Kong and Burma...
...islands of the Orient" in a Japanese commercial empire that Tokyo called the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere. On Sept. 27, 1940, Konoye joined the Axis powers, Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy, in a formal alliance known as the Tripartite Pact. He demanded that Britain shut down the Burma Road, supply route for aid to Chiang, and that Vichy accept Japanese bases in Indochina for a southern attack on Chiang...
...Burma's military rulers were predictably unimpressed by last week's news. The cool reception the award was given in other Asian states was hardly more encouraging. "It might prick the conscience of a few people," said Zakaria Ahmad, head of strategic and security studies at the National University of Malaysia, "but it won't change anything." A Singaporean diplomat categorized the prize as "almost a nonevent...
...attitudes illustrate the contrast between the West's vocal outrage at human-rights abuses, even as Western oil companies are exploring there, and the Asian view that such issues should be handled without direct confrontation. Some Asians even see the latest Peace Prize as a form of interference in Burma's domestic affairs, even of neocolonial badgering. Almost all Asian governments are more eager to do business with Burma than to put pressure on it. South Korea recently opened a household-appliance factory there. China has agreed to sell the junta almost $1 billion in armaments, partly in return...
...member Association of South East Asian Nations, a political and economic grouping, has repeatedly rejected calls from the West to impose economic sanctions on Burma. Lee Kuan Yew, the former Prime Minister of Singapore, explains that ASEAN thinks sanctions will not work. "The ASEAN view," he says, "is that if we boycott or condemn the government, we'll lose influence with...