The generals, in any case, have been working around the sanctions. They must be told, as they hold out leases for gas and oil exploration and give China the promise of greater access to the Indian Ocean, that their policy of playing one country against another is unacceptable. And as our columnist notes, with a political transformation in Burma so likely, it is by weighing in on the side of that transformation that India can meet its own strategic objective, of countering Chinese influence in the country.
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