(Washington Composite Electric) Myanmar's political situation entered the third day. On Tuesday, the U.S. State Department officially qualified the behavior of the Myanmar military as a coup on Tuesday, referring to the sanctions against the military generals and suspending the funding to the Myanmar government.Experts believe that in the current situation of domestic and foreign difficulties in the United States, it is difficult for the United States to impose substantial sanctions on Myanmar.
The US media believes that the United States has only a few of Burmese aid for the local government, so the review has not had much impact on the Burmese aid plan or on the Myanmar military.
USAID data shows that the United States has not had much assistance to Myanmar.Since 2001, the total aid of the United States has a total aid amount of Myanmar (about S $ 288 million), of which 175 million US dollars have been handled by non -governmental agencies. The main assistance items include food assistance, election support, and funds provided by democratic agencies.In contrast, the US government's assistance to the Philippines during the same period was US $ 428 million.
Experts: Last week, the IMF material for $ 350 million could not recover the anti -epidemic aid
Data show that the US aid in Myanmar last year was about 109 million US dollars.However, officials of the State Department admitted that most of the aid issued by the United States to Myanmar was "very small and almost zero" issued by the Burmese government through civic social groups.
Before the military launching a coup, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) allocated $ 350 million in cash to the Myanmar government last week. This is part of the emergency assistance scheme without attachment to help Myanmar's anti -crown disease epidemic.According to international financial experts, the IMF seems to be powerless to recover this money.
U.S. officials revealed on Tuesday that after Myanmar's coup, Milly, Chairman of the United States Chiefs of Staff, tried to contact the Burmese military, but did not succeed.
Analysis pointed out that when Western countries responded to this coup, they obviously did not focus on Wengshan Shuzhi's personal, but focused on democracy that promoted the restoration of Myanmar.Some diplomats and parliamentarians revealed that Western countries were dissatisfied with Wengshan Shuzhi to deal with the Rohingya problem when they were in power, and believed that she was no longer a symbol of democratic leaders and human rights.
Wang Yong, director of the International Political and Economic Research Center of Peking University, said in an interview with Zhongtong News Agency that these sanctions are more symbolic, because the United States has a small impact on Myanmar's economy, the bilateral trade amount is small, the investment is also very goodfew.In fact, there are not many ways to sanction the current Myanmar military in the United States.
Liu Yongyu, assistant professor at the School of Public Policy of the National University of Singapore, Liu Yongyu pointed out in an interview with Lianhe Morning Post that the competition between the two countries on Myanmar issues will intensify in the context of China and the United States for the influence and control of Southeast Asia.
He said: "This is a bad thing for Asia Gyeonga. Asia's Diandan is not only able to cope with these two big powers, but also to deal with their relationship with Myanmar, as well as the contact between Asia's itself and Myanmar."
