But really, even if General Maung Aye has assumed power, there is little hope that Myanmar will change its policies, either domestic or external. On the external front, the Myanmar ruling junta is expected to continue playing off India and China, cooperating militarily with the former to check drug trafficking and offering naval cooperation with the latter to allow it to keep an eye on the Indian naval facilities in the Andamans – Myanmar has leased out Coco Island to China for this purpose. As much as the world might like it, General Maung Aye is unlikely to release Nobel Peace prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi from house arrest. The only concession to democracy that the military seems to willing to concede is to press ahead with finalising a new constitution. But if democracy were in reality an objective strived for, then for nearly two decades, the military junta of Myanmar would not have aggressively resisted enormous international pressure to restore democracy. Let the world not get too excited, one constitution does not a democracy make.
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