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2. For example, the repressive Burmese regime remains in power partly by selling the country's natural gas to Thailand and using these revenues to buy weapons from India. The regime is being protected from UN sanctions by China in exchange for access to Burma's large energy reserves.
3. Terry Lynn Karl,The Paradox of Plenty: Oil Booms and Petro-States(Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press, 1997), pp. 58-64.
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