Similarities:
- strategically located
- rich natural resources
- long-standing repressive rule
- resisting hard power with soft power
- influx of Han settlers
- leaders Nobel peace prize winners
- ethnic Burmans are of Tibetan stock
Differences:
- Repression in Tibet is by an occupying power
- Crackdown in Burma led to international indignation and a new round of sanctions,
but no call for any penal action, however mild, against China
- China grants local autonomy to just two areas, Hongkong and Macau. Other autonomous regions, prefectures, counties and townships are autonomous only in names.
Brahma Chellaney,
a professor of strategic studies
at Center for Policy Research
in New Delhi, Japan Times,
9 April 2008
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