For students of Southeast Asian politics and political communication, this extract, from a longer official Burmese article denouncing the National League for Democracy, is a good example of some well-used rhetorical devices. It comes from Maung Cetana, “She who turned alien or danger to the nation”, The New Light of Myanmar, 5 July 2006, page 9. Maung Cetana writes, in part:
Today, Myanmar is practising the national politics, not liberal policy…The ruling government is the national government, the policy is the scientific nationalism, the economic system is the market-oriented economy or capitalism under the leadership of the State, and the political aim is discipline-flourishing democracy (national democracy) to be introduced in accordance with the Asian way.
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1 anonymous // Dec 6, 2006 at 6:59 pm
That description of the ideal Burmese government doesn’t sound so different from the way the Thai government is being run.
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