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Obama plans to lift all sanctions against Myannmar

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From 1988 up until 2010, the burmese military ruled over the country with an iron fist; an action which led DC into placing sanctions. In 2011, the regime began making reforms and in 2015, Aung San Suu Kyi became the country's first president. Because of these reforms, President Barack Obama is making plans to lift all sanctions on the country. This will hopefully increase American investment in one of the poorest countries in the world but with one of the highest GDP growth rates in the world. However, some human rights groups advocate that removing all sanctions will limit the ability of the US to push for less corruption in the country.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/16/world/asia/myanmar-sanctions-economy-us.html
 
Given that sanctions against third-world, developing nations tend to inhibit growth and most negatively affect the lower classes, I'm wondering when we're going to figure out that sanctions against developing nations -- even ones recently run by hardline military juntas like Myanmar -- do more harm than good.
 
Given that sanctions against third-world, developing nations tend to inhibit growth and most negatively affect the lower classes, I'm wondering when we're going to figure out that sanctions against developing nations -- even ones recently run by hardline military juntas like Myanmar -- do more harm than good.
Do more harm than good? iLOL
The point of sanctions is to do harm to the point of forcing them to change their behavior.
 
Do more harm than good? iLOL
The point of sanctions is to do harm to the point of forcing them to change their behavior.

Yeah, and how has that worked out? Did sanctions end the junta in Myanmar? Did they depose the Castros in Cuba?

Who do the sanctions harm the most? It ain't the ruling aristocracy, that's for sure.
 
From 1988 up until 2010, the burmese military ruled over the country with an iron fist; an action which led DC into placing sanctions. In 2011, the regime began making reforms and in 2015, Aung San Suu Kyi became the country's first president. Because of these reforms, President Barack Obama is making plans to lift all sanctions on the country. This will hopefully increase American investment in one of the poorest countries in the world but with one of the highest GDP growth rates in the world. However, some human rights groups advocate that removing all sanctions will limit the ability of the US to push for less corruption in the country.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/16/world/asia/myanmar-sanctions-economy-us.html

But we need friends in the region.

And The Professor does not have much going on .

Pivot to Asia right, that is what we were supposed to get, where is it?
 
Given that sanctions against third-world, developing nations tend to inhibit growth and most negatively affect the lower classes, I'm wondering when we're going to figure out that sanctions against developing nations -- even ones recently run by hardline military juntas like Myanmar -- do more harm than good.

In many underdeveloped nations, the government tends to hoard wealth going into the country. Government officials in those countries tend to live as well off as the average european and american while the average person in that country is barely getting by. So the sanctions tend to affect the people with wealth more than the people who are starving
 
Yeah, and how has that worked out? Did sanctions end the junta in Myanmar? Did they depose the Castros in Cuba?

Who do the sanctions harm the most? It ain't the ruling aristocracy, that's for sure.

By the way, it was the sanctions which convinced Iran to agree to a nuclear deal: Iran would place safeguards against developing nuclear weapons and in return, the US would lift sanctions.
 
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