[QUOTE]NEW DELHI — President Obama will visit Myanmar this month, the White House said Thursday, as his administration seeks to bolster democracy and strengthen ties with nations in the region.The visit will be part of a three-country tour Nov. 17-20 that will include stops in Bangkok, Thailand, and Phnom Penh, Cambodia, where the president will attend an Asian summit, the White House statement said. In Myanmar, Obama will meet with President Thein Sein and opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi.
Though a visit to Myanmar carries political risks, most notably by staking presidential prestige on a government still dominated by generals with a brutal past, it dovetails with the administration's support for Myanmar's nascent democracy. It also fits with its so-called pivot strategy aimed at checkingChina's influence by bolstering military and political ties with democracies on that nation's periphery.
The timing of the visit presumably will not be appreciated in Beijing. China is preparing for a once-in-a-decade leadership change early next year, when Vice President Xi Jinping is expected to replace Hu Jintao as president. Analysts said little news is expected out of the Phnom Penh summit of the Assn. of Southeast Asian Nations, attended by regional leaders, with the Myanmar trip more likely to grab headlines.
U.S. policy on Myanmar, also known as Burma, has gained more heft since Nobel Peace Prizelaureate Suu Kyi visited the United States in September. Washington has invited Myanmar to observe its "Cobra Gold" military exercise in Thailand early next year and announced an expansion of aid and a whittling away of economic sanctions.
And the World Bank, strongly influenced by Washington, last week offered the impoverished country an $80-million development package. Thein Sein was the first Myanmar leader to speak before the U.N. General Assembly when he made a landmark trip to New York in September.
The White House announcement follows a series of visits to Myanmar by U.S. officials, including Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton. Bridget Welsh, a political science professor at Singapore Management University, said circumstantial evidence in recent days of a pending presidential visit included talk of a special editorial supplement planned by the Myanmar Times and bookings in major hotels for a sizable "Western delegation."[/QUOTE]
[URL]http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-myanmar-obama-20121109,0,7800037.story[/URL]
I thought my UK Space spending one was pretty spot on.
only smurfy is allowed damnit
it was funny
and then people ran it into the ground
[QUOTE=Mateo!;38391945]it was funny
and then people ran it into the ground[/QUOTE]
like every meme
arrow in the knee was good for 1 video
and then people killed it, and months later, churned out garbage like "arrow in the knee" rap where some complete retard says "Then I took an arrow in the knee" over and over at an attempt to be relevant and hip.
[QUOTE=Mateo!;38391945]it was funny
and then people ran it into the ground[/QUOTE]
Welcome to facepunch
I don't see what was ever funny about an arrow in the knee
The Onion did this earlier and way better:
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9U4Ha9HQvMo[/media]
Smurfy needs to make another of these:
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IiJrgfKbQrs&feature=plcp[/media]
[QUOTE=CanadianBill;38391921]
What's going on?![/QUOTE]
What's going on is a complex series of events involving a human being taking time to be present in a certain area of space different from normal.
That's what's fucking going on.
im guessing people are artificially trying to run it into the ground so mods can start banning it?
Seriously, stop with these titles.
[QUOTE=Daniel Smith;38391931]Simplicity is key[/QUOTE]
not fucking doing them because they've already been run into the ground is key.
oh of course obongo, run away to your arabistan while the NATION is in TROUBLE
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