Why is UN Security Council called on to take action against Myanmar?

These days, Western broadcasting stations are variously airing the exaggerated report of Vaclav Havel and Desmond Tutu calling on the UN Security Council to take action against Myanmar. They are broadcasting various interviews designed to tarnish the image of Myanmar. So, all who love the motherland and the people, should not support such an unjust act.

Indeed, the report was created under the influence of some big nations that are imposing economic sanctions, cutting off humanitarian aid and interferring in the internal affairs of Myanmar.

Myanmar abolished the centralized socialist system in 1988, and since then it has been practising the market-oriented economic system to introduce multi-party democracy system. In doing so, the nation has paved the way on its own for introducing democracy in line with its way of life instead of directly copying the Western democracy. It is because it has taken lessons from some Eastern European countries that collapsed following death and destruction due to their carbon copy of Western democracy. Nowadays, the People’s Republic of China is enjoying miracle economy thanks to the practice of market economic system in its own style.

Industrialized countries that are in support of the market-oriented economic system are imposing restrictions against China instead of encouraging it. Although Western countries are claiming that they are capitalist democratic ones, they are in fact practising feudal system. So, they have lost fine characteristics of capitalism. Gradually, they have come to practise negative characteristics of feudalism such as monopolization, hegemonism, protectionism, invasion of weaker countries with the use of superior force, and keeping minions. The simultaneous practice of feudalism and capitalism is harming the interests of developing countries and the peoples and capitalists of those countries, where bankruptcy of companies, decreasing productivity, high inflation, and high unemployment are common.

Today, the annual economic growth rate of the People’s Republic of China is 8.5 per cent, and India, 6.5 per cent, which are much better than that of Western countries. The present economic strategy of China is different from that of Japan; it is more globalized or more capitalistic. Japan prefers exporting goods and making investments in foreign countries but keeps its domestic market closed. On the other hand, China keeps its large domestic market open encouraging import and export. In this regard, the US consistency in the context of the set value is questionable.

A Chinese offshore oil corporation (CNOOC) proposed to purchase the US oil company (UNOCAL). The US Congress strongly protested against the proposal. Theoretically, merging or division of companies should conform to the market economy. Such an interference of a government is opposed to the market-oriented economic system. The US constantly demanded China and Russia to open foreign investments in the energy sector. However, the interference of the Congress is not in conformity with its demand of China and Russia. It is too protective towards its interest. Experts made comments that the US Congress’ objection to disrupt China’s economy is contrary to its norm. There are two causes of why China’s economic policy has come to take the form of capitalism and the US economic policy has come to take the form of centralized socialism.

1. In industrialized countries such as the US, feudal system dominates other systems due to the State Constitution consisting of feudalism and capitalism.

2. In China, feudalism is no more and there have emerged characteristics of capitalism due to the fact that land belongs to human society.

US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld on a visit to Singapore made a harsh criticism in connection with the defence budget of China. In that regard, many newspapers including Singapore Strait Times stated comparison of defence budgets of China and the US. The US defence budget is close to 500 billion US dollars, accounting for about half of the defence budget of the entire world, while China’s defence budget stands between 50 billion and 90 billion US dollars. So, the US Defence Secretary came under criticism.

It vividly reflects that the US is anxious to dominate the entire world economically, politically and militarily.

Nowadays, the US is imposing economic sanctions against Myanmar, that never accepts US domination, despite her unremitting efforts to transform the nation into a democratic one through the market economic system. Besides that, it has cut off humanitarian aid, put pressure on the nation, and attempted to take action against her through the UN Security Council with the use of exaggerated allegations. The US always attempts to manipulate international affairs. For instance, it managed to manipulate choosing winners of Nobel Peace Prize awarded by Norway, academic and literary prizes by Sweden out of prizes awarded the programme of Alfred Nobel.

It is learnt that CIA successfully created situations under which the US citizens won the majority of the awards on science, medical science and economics, USSR and other socialist countries could not win these awards, and those who carried out activities in compliance with the CIA of the US especially those who were opposed to their governments against which the US had a bias, could win Nobel Literary Prize and Nobel Peace Prize.

Now, Vaclav Havel and Desmond Tutu have exaggerated Myanmar affairs with a call on the UN Security Council to act against Myanmar. Indeed, the act of the two men is dominated by the US or to the liking of the US.

Author : Aung Moe San