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Myanmar's capital tells the story of a void that is waiting to be filled
Telegraph | Ashis Chakrabarti | Naypyitaw, May 30:
What does this 16-lane concrete road, the opulent house of power or the city itself built in the middle of nowhere, he may have asked himself, say of the country, its rulers and the ruled?
And Myanmar’s generals built this city — spread over 7,054sqkm on what once was one of the finest teak forests in all of Asia — with money, materials and security strategies supplied by another dictatorship across the border — China.
“Everything you see here is Chinese,” chuckles Min Min Kyaw, a young man who works as a tour guide. “China is our brother, nay, father, though Myanmar is our mother.”
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