China’s Influence in Myanmar
April 6th, 2012
Via STRATFOR (subscription required), a look at China’s enduring influence in Myanmar: China’s Foreign Ministry released a statement today calling on Western powers to lift all sanctions on Myanmar after the country’s by-elections were regarded by international monitors as relatively free and fair. This is an unusual statement from a state that the West has […]
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April 5th, 2012
Courtesy of The Financial Times, a look at how Myanmar’s reform promises opportunities for overseas investors – but makes locals and neighbors alike wary: Near Yangon’s historic riverfront on Monday, the buzz at the Thein Phyu Money Changer Centre came not only from the overnight news that Aung San Suu Kyi and her opposition National […]
Read more »Drilling Down On the Iran – Pakistan Pipeline
April 5th, 2012
Via Foreign Policy, a report on the Iran-Pakistan gas pipeline project: The controversial Iran-Pakistan (IP) gas pipeline has become an increasingly problematic issue in the vacillating U.S-Pakistan relationship. The United States has strongly condemned the project, but such rhetoric seems only to have made Pakistan more determined to continue with it. An energy agreement between […]
Read more »YPF: Is The End Near?
April 5th, 2012
Via The Financial Times, a look at how Argentina’s turmoil is affecting its largest oil company, YPF: As chess players know, the queen is the most powerful piece, able to advance a number of steps in several directions at any time. It looks like Cristina Fernández, Argentina’s president has been honing her chess skills as […]
Read more »Obstacles To Foreign Investment In Myanmar
April 2nd, 2012
Courtesy of STRATFOR (subscription required), some analysis of potential challenges to foreign investment in Myanmar: Myanmar held parliamentary by-elections April 1, during which the country’s opposition party, led by democracy activist Aung San Suu Kyi, won at least 40 of 45 seats. The polls come one year after the March 2011 establishment of a nominally […]
Read more »Central Asia: Pivot Region Of Global Geopolitics
April 2nd, 2012
Via Al Jazeera, some commentary on Central Asia: Dubbed as the “pivot region” of world politics, the five Central Asian nations of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan have collectively gained an immense strategic importance over the last two decades, thanks to their geography and vast deposits of natural resources including gold, gas, oil and […]
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