Obama's Mayamar Visit

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My comment: There is no need to read the rest of any report below.

(1) Peter Baker, Obama, in an Emerging Myanmar, Vows Support; A president promises to 'support you every step of the way.'  New York Times, Nov 19, 2012
("While local leaders [in Myanmar] attributes the [political] changes so far to internal factors and decisions, Mr Obama was eager to claim a measure of credit. He has played nursemaid to the opening of Myanmar, formerly and still known by many as Burma, by sending the first American ambadassor in 22 years, easing sanctions and meeting with Ms Aung San Suu Kyi in Washington" DC)

Note: nursemaid (n):
"a girl or woman who is regularly employed to look after children"
m-w.com

(2) Peter Baker and Jane Perlez, Obama's Road to Myanmar Is Paved With New Asia Intentions. New York Times, Nov 18, 2012.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/1 ... sia-intentions.html

Quote:

"Mr Obama will make a historic visit to Myanmar to mark the emergence of the long-isolated country and encourage its migration from China’s orbit toward a more democratic future with the West.

"As for China, he [Thomas E. Donilon, the president’s national security adviser] said, the relationship 'has elements of both cooperation and competition.'

"Although the trip to Yangon was scheduled to coincide with the Asian summit meeting, the symbolism of Mr. Obama’s visit — the first by a sitting United States president — has not been lost on China, a longtime patron. * * * The [Chinese] government interprets America’s attention on the region, including the deployment of more troops and battleships, as an effort to encircle China.

"China has the edge in trade; every country in the region except the Philippines does more business with China than with the United States.

"The visit represents a shock to China * * * But privately, some Chinese analysts said China overplayed its hand in tapping Myanmar’s natural resources, citing as an example a backlash against a $3.6 billion hydroelectric dam at Myitsone — a project that was suspended last year amid outrage that 90 percent of its electricity was destined for China, not power-poor Myanmar.

(3) Peteer Baker, In Visit to Myanmar, Obama Will SEe a Nation That Shaped His Grandfather. New York Times, Nov 18, 2012
("He [Hussein Onyago Obama, The Kenyan grandfather of Pres Barack Hussein Obama, who shares exactly the same name as his father] took the Arabic name Hussein when he converted to Islam and married a muslim woman while living on the island of Zanzibar. When World War II broke out, according to the stories the younger Mr Obama was told [in president's autobiography Dreams From My Father], Omyago Obama traveled to Burma, Ceylon and Arabia as a cook for a British captain in the King's African Rifles")

Note: Zanzibar
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zanzibar
(from Persian Zangibār "Coast of Blacks": zangi [black-skinned] + bār [coast]; of Tanzania)