Myanmar's Narasimha Rao moment?

In a matter of months, Myanmar’s infamous junta diluted itself out of power, a new “elected” government took office, duly freed pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi from house arrest, lifted some curbs on the local media, unblocked YouTube, declared that censorship ought to go, announced the intention to introduce economic reforms and – hold on to your seats, ladies and gentlemen – bowed to public pressure and suspended construction on a huge hydro-electric dam that Chinese firms were building on the Irrawaddy river.

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