Economics
Asia Investors Split With West Over Myanmar's Rohingya Crackdown
- ‘Let’s get the bull out of the China shop’: investment chief
- Asian countries take lead in Myanmar while West stays away
Myanmar Navy personnel escort Rohingya Muslims back to their camp in Sittwe, Rakhine state, on Nov. 30, 2018
Source: AFP via Getty Images
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In a vast convention center in Naypyidaw, Myanmar’s sprawling and eerily empty capital, prospective investors listened politely as local companies pitched opportunities and government officials spoke of the country’s vast economic potential.
Yet in the hallways, conversations drifted toward one topic: A military-led crackdown that drove more than 700,000 Rohingya Muslims from the country, prompting allegations of genocide and threats of renewed economic penalties from the U.S. and European Union.