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An even longer game, then, for Miss Suu Kyi and her supporters. But is it the right one? A growing body of opinion thinks not. It follows a tedious ritual. The world calls for freedom and democracy. The United Nations dispatches a representative to Yangon. He is fobbed off. The Lady continues in detention. The UN's most recent big cheese was none other than the secretary-general. Ban Ki-moon left Yangon earlier this month without being allowed to meet Miss Suu Kyi.
This costs more than just wasted journeys. Myanmar is rich in natural gas, timber and gems. China and India, strategic rivals to east and west, chummy up to the junta. The Burmese elite has second homes and bank accounts in Thailand. Russia sells the generals arms, as does China, and both provide cover for the generals on the Security Council. So Myanmar does now in fact engage with the worldbut its engagement takes the ugly form of a rapacious capitalism with amoral partners. Hillary Clinton, on her first trip to Asia as secretary of state, admitted that isolation "hasn't influenced the junta". An American review of Myanmar policy is under way, but official silence over Miss Suu Kyi's trial hints at a certain confusion. Because there is no engagement, America's soft power has no traction.
Worse, everyone from the UN down views Myanmar through the lens of democracy above all elseeven development. For a desperate country with shocking rates of disease and mortality such a priority is dubious at best, shameful at worst. If nothing else, it fails to acknowledge how development can improve local governance.

A. 어휘
supporter 지지자. tedious 지루한. ritual 儀式(의식). dispatch 파견하다.
representative 대표. Yangon 미얀마의 수도. fob off 피하다, 속이다.
detention 拘禁(구금). none other than 다름 아닌 바로 (그 사람).
the secretary-general 사무총장. timber 목재. gem 보석. strategic 전략적.
to east and west 미얀마의 동쪽과 서쪽에 있는. chummy up 상냥하게 대하다.
junta 군사정권. bank accounts 은행계좌. provide cover 掩護(엄호)하다.
general 장군. the Security Council 유엔 안전보장이사회의.
engage with 교류하다. engagement 교류, 참여, 交戰(교전).
rapacious 탐욕스러운, 강탈하는. amoral 몰도덕적인, 도덕성이 없는.
secretary of state 국무장관. isolation 고립. review 재검토.
confusion 혼란. traction 牽引力(견인력). Worse=What is worse. 더욱 더 나쁜 것은.
above all else 그 밖의 다른 모든 것보다도.
desperate 절망적인, 자포자기의, 필사적인. rates 비율. mortality 사망률.
priority 우선, 앞서기, 우선권. such a priority→ democracy.
dubious 의심스러운, 결과를 알 수 없는. at best 잘해야.
acknowledge 인정하다, 승인하다. governance 통치, 지배, 管理(관리).

B. 구문
- Because there is no engagement, America󰡑s soft power has no traction.
[미국이 개입하지 않기 때문에 미국의 비군사적인 힘은 견인력이 없다.]

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In the Irrawaddy delta in the wake of cyclone Nargis, which struck last year killing 140,000, deciding how humanitarian aid should be spent has increased civic participation and local autonomy in the face of an uncaring regime. Yet apart from Japan, official aid levels to Myanmar are pitiful compared even with other poor countries.

Icon or obstacle?
Lastly, depicting Myanmar as a kind of velvet revolution gone wrong, as Thant Myint-U, a historian of Burma, points out, is to ignore a big part of the picture. The paranoid regime's inward-looking cast is conditioned by centuries of invasions, among them by the British and, after independence in 1948, by American-backed Chinese Nationalists. Since independence, the military has faced dozens of communist and ethnic insurgencies. It is true that since the 1990s, ceasefires have been signed in all but two. But independent Burma did not emerge as a unified state and, under early democratic rule, insurgencies flourished. The remaining conflicts, financed by drugs trafficking, are the longest-running wars in the world. They cannot simply be ignored.
Sanctions have helped bring about no democratic transition in Asiaon the contrary. So imagine if the West reversed policy, dropped sanctions and pursued engagement. The generals have already looked at the development paths blazed by China and Vietnam and said they want to follow. In comparison to the regimes in those two countries, Myanmar's badly lacks legitimacy. So Mr Thant says that development could bring about swift changes to the political landscape, as eventually happened in Indonesia. Development, in other words, could be the fastest path to democracy. Will the courageous Lady admit as much?

A. 어휘
the Irrawaddy delta 미얀마의 Irrawaddy江 삼각주.
in the wake of ...에 뒤이어, 뒤를 쫓아서. humanitarian 인도주의의, 博愛(박애)의.
civic 시민의, 공민의, 도시의. participation 참여. local autonomy 지방자치.
in the face of ...에 직면하여. an uncaring regime 무관심한 정부(정권).
apart from ...을 제외하고. official aid 공식적인 원조. pitiful 한심스러운, 가련한.
icon 우상, 聖像(성상), 像(상). obstacle 장애물, 방해. depict 묘사하다, 표현하다.
velvet revolution 軟性(연성)혁명. paranoid 편집병에 걸린. regime 정권.
cast 경향, 성질. condition 결정하다, ...을 알맞은 상태로 하다, 조절하다.
invasion 침략. American-backed 미국이 지원하는.
Chinese Nationalists 중국 국민당 당원(군대). ethnic 인종의, 소수민족의.
insurgency 반란, 폭동. ethnic insurgencies 인종폭동. ceasefire 休戰(휴전).
but=except ...외에는(전치사). emerge 출현하다. unified state 통일국가.
flourish 繁盛(번성)하다. conflict 동란, 전쟁, 충돌. drugs trafficking 마약거래.
sanction 국제적 제재. bring about 초래하다, 惹起(야기)하다.
transition 변화, 변천. on the contrary 반대로. reverse 역으로 돌리다.
engagement 교류, 交戰(교전), 참여, 약속. general 장군.
blaze 標的(표적)을 내다, 길 표지를 만들다, 타오르다. legitimacy 합법성.
landscape 풍경. eventually 결국, 최후에는. as much 같은 정도로.

B. 구문
- compared=if they(official aid levels) are compared
- if the West reversed policy, dropped sanctions and pursued engagement.
cf. 가정법과거: 현재사실의 반대를 가정.
[만약 서방세계가 정책을 역으로 바꾸고 제재를 취소하고 교류를 추구한다면.]
-Myanmar's =Myanmar's regime.