The Rangoon journal Flower News recently reported that about a dozen Chinese universities were offering places for Burmese students, who were attracted by the comparatively low fees and living costs.
Thin Thin is learning Chinese at William Penn, apparently unaware of the irony inherent in an American university teaching young Burmese a language they can employ in strengthening ties between Burma and China. Thin Thin draws a comparison with the relationship between the US and Mexico. While she sees the necessity of Burma working more closely with China, she adds: “I am afraid that in the next 20 or 25 years, when China is very rich, my country will be a kind of Mexico.”
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