The Nov. 13 release of Aung San Suu Kyi has set off a predictable deluge of commentary about the significance of her return to the fore of Burma's pro-democracy movement. But there has been little commentary on how China factors into Ms. Suu Kyi's future. Beijing's reaction to this event, and how Ms. Suu Kyi fits into China's strategic calculus in Burma, may be one of the most important yet poorly understood aspects of this unfolding morality play.
The conventional wisdom is that the Chinese government's overriding concern with cross-border stability and access to Burma's abundant energy and other resources, ...
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