China + Burma boost economic ties despite French Total, US-based Chevron 'enriching Burma junta'
China and Burma may boost economic ties, as Burma/Myanmar is a close neighbor + China must counter Western meddling in the region aimed at wedging China or destabilizing regional relations.... Oil giants Total and Chevron are propping up Burma's junta with billions of dollars hidden by the regime in Singapore, while trying to whitewash rights abuses, an environment group says. Army security forces guarding a gas pipeline project backed by France's Total and US-based Chevron were linked to ...
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