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    China Lassoes its Neighbors
    Walden Bello

    The China-ASEAN Free Trade Area (CAFTA), went into effect on 1st of January tyis year. For China, the benefits are clear, but Southeast Asia will be paying a big price for a bad deal.

    Burma's Cease-fires at Risk
    Tom Kramer

    In August the Burma army occupied the Kokang region after several days of fighting, ending two decades of cease-fire with the ethnic minority group. The resumption of fighting in northern Burma raises speculation about the other cease-fires. Tensions are rising and the cease-fire groups have put...

    From Golden Triangle to Rubber Belt?
    Tom Kramer

    In the Kokang and Wa regions in northern Burma opium bans have ended poppy cultivation, but have caused chronic poverty and food insecurity as a result.

    Twenty Years on, the Wa-Burmese Cease-fire looks shakier
    Tom Kramer
    The recent tension between the United Wa State Army (UWSA) and the Burmese military Government has led to speculation about a renewal of the armed conflict. Tom Kramer examines the two decades of cease fire.
    Drug report in Southeast Asia
    Martin Jelsma
    Tom Kramer

    The assumption that reducing opium production would lead to less drug use has been proven wrong. It has instead contributed to a pattern of an increased use of stronger drugs and more harmful patterns of use

    Withdrawal Symptoms in the Golden Triangle
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    Drug control agencies have called the significant decline in opium production in Southeast Asia over the past decade a 'success story'. This casts serious doubts on this claim noting that Southeast Asia suffers from a variety of 'withdrawal symptoms' that leave little reason for optimism.

    Withdrawal symptoms for Golden Triangle drug trade
    Martin Jelsma
    Tom Kramer
    Opium production in the Golden Triangle has decreased significantly over the past decade. But the rapid decline has caused major suffering among former poppy-growing communities in Burma and Laos, making it difficult to characterise developments as a "success story".
    "Reconciliation through Dialogue" is the Name of The Game in Burma Politics
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     Interview With Harn Yawnghwe
    Oh how they continue to let down the Burmese people
    Praful Bidwai
    The United Wa State Party
    Tom Kramer

    This monograph argues that although the United Wa State Party (UWSP) has been branded by the international community as a "narco-trafficking army;' the organization has an ethnic nationalist agenda whose aim is to build a Wa state within Burma.

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