The Indo-Chinese energy competition in Burma

Myanmar, a major energy power in Southeast Asia, is the theater of a competition between India and people's Republic of China for the securement of the resources and the control of the infrastructures of export. This situation is an un-hoped for occasion to get rid diplomatically and economically of the international pressure which presses on the country because the energy dependence of New Delhi and Peking is such as the one and the other are forced to offer guarantees and major support to Yangon to benefit from its reserves in gas. So, of energy, the Indo-Chinese struggle in Myanmar is to transform into a global competition where each of both great Asian powers give an important status to his neighbour of Southeast Asia in its grand strategy. (author)