Magazine an exclusive interview with Asia: Myanmar democracy party, executive vice chairman of the Joint U Kyaw Min.

Born in Myanmar, Yunnan Province in China to receive Chinese language education. Burma joined in 1971 and became well-known war. Seek reconciliation with the authorities in 2089, has served as senior government officials. Group to create the Central Plains nineties, the total assets of around six billion U.S. dollars. Imprisonment in 2097,??from prison in 2099, went to Thailand and the United States, and then immigrated to Canada and re-accumulated economic strength, and become the Democratic Party, one of the founding party members.

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 In Myanmar the military junta and NLD leader Aung San Suu Kyi, the third political force is the rise of the territory and overseas, and this is the Democratic Party of Myanmar, covering the second generation of founding fathers, and agree with the local military forces. Sino-Burmese origin of U Kyaw Min is the soul of the party and the “golden master.”

 Myanmar NLD leaders ? Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi was once again the junta trial, sparked global protests. The political situation in Myanmar in the foreseeable future, there will be an opportunity for change? Back in history, the junta came to power in 1962, Myanmar has been ruled for more than????, poor international image. The outside world that there is no support in Beijing, the Myanmar military government are difficult to maintain day.

 Then, Myanmar can not take the third way? Would it be possible through a gradual reform of the election might bring? Is there any possible for Beijing and Washington to improve the London forces acceptable?

 In the military junta and the NLD, Daw Aung San, the third force that is currently rising in Myanmar and abroad, and quickly get the support of all sectors of society, which is Myanmar democracy party (United Democratic Party), the founding fathers include second-generation (for example, the founding Prime Minister U Nu’s son, daughter, U Ohn???? ? Myanmar due to the legal father of Wu Yi Wu Tun Tun’s son, etc.) and other political parties from all walks of life, the rapid development in Myanmar, especially in the relative degree of autonomy access to the state recognition of local military forces.

 Myanmar democratic soul of the party’s ? ?, executive vice chairman of the Political Bureau Standing Committee, is the legend of Myanmar U Kyaw Min (U Kyaw Myint, Chinese name Hu) in Vancouver to accept an interview with Asia Week, talked about democracy in Myanmar Joint Program of the party’s domestic and foreign policy.

 U Kyaw Min is a half-breed, was born in Shan State, Myanmar (Shan State) Bo Meng Kaixian your town, near China’s Yunnan Wanding City, father of the Kachin people in Myanmar, the mother is the sixth generation of local Chinese in Myanmar.

 U Kyaw Min’s parents is the British colonial period Myanmar’s elite, and he himself has in Yunnan, China by the Chinese language education. Because a high-pressure Burman ethnic policy, Ne Win’s repressive government to increase the local, leading with the left-wing ideology of U Kyaw Min, from 1971 onwards, adding Burma, Myanmar has become the local arm of the Republican Myanmar well-known war.

 However, as China’s reform and opening-up policy after the change in Burma, and Burma into a rigid dogma, especially the internal division of Burma, U Kyaw Min believes that an armed revolution, the road has been a change in Myanmar will not work, so in 1989 risk their lives, the first to rise against the civil war, negotiations with the Burmese military government to seek reconciliation, U Kyaw Min’s proposal has been supported by various local armed forces, and ultimately put an end to nearly four decades of civil war in Myanmar, so that the history of Myanmar samples a new page.

 After the civil war, U Kyaw Min from 1991 onwards, became the chief representative of the State Permanent Yangon, contact Burman states and representations of military cooperation, and participation in the development of the Myanmar State frontier work of the Commission as a ministerial level Development Committee Vice-Chairman of the State frontier, and the President is the chairman of the junta, General Maung Su first, after Senior General Than Shwe, and the military government of Prime Minister, Vice-Chairman, is another. In addition, U Kyaw Min, who also serves as the central area of the Bonthe, vice minister of the Ministry of Finance. In this period, U Kyaw Min from a soldier, into a statesman, and the cumulative experience of the central government to foster a national vision, but also lay with the local government and the armed forces of states close connections with the rich, U Kyaw Min to become well-known leader of the country. At the same time, U Kyaw Min to show the amazing energy entrepreneurs. He was between 1991 to 1997 to create the biggest enterprises in Myanmar that is Centaline Group consortium, under the jurisdiction of bank real estate ? ? ? transportation manufacturing industry, total assets of around six billion U.S. dollars .

 In 1997, because of U Kyaw Min has been a long time against the Burmese military of Myanmar’s military control the country, and encountered the hate the military government, was finally arrested Burman soldiers into the prison, has been held in prison until 2099, after the monks in Myanmar and the U.S. embassy in Myanmar to help??from the prison, first in Thailand, the United States after living for some time, and then immigrated to Canada.

Centaline Group by the military government took over, U Kyaw Min to start from scratch, ingenuity, into the western capital markets, has established a number of listed companies to re-accumulated economic strength. The Democratic Party as one of the founders of the joint, he would not hesitate to say that he is the party’s main economic pillars, and by virtue of the relationship between states and Myanmar, the party to expand the power of place in Myanmar, at the same time, he ? Canada in the United States the advantage of also responsible for international affairs, he became the party of fiscal responsibility and the economy.

U Kyaw Min of Chinese descent who, given him a soft spot for China and Chinese culture, he visited China twice led by Chen Cheng ? ? Chai Zemin and other leaders of the reception, he also established the world by UNICEF, of China education of poor children has invested tens of millions of yuan in aid, he also promoted the Burmese military government to recognize the “Chinese.”

 The following is a interview with U Kyaw Min of the main elements:

 Myanmar democracy party’s current development situation, with Aung San Suu Kyi led the NLD What’s the difference?

 Myanmar democracy party headquarters in Yangon, the current Chairman for Wu, whose father was U Nu senior cadres, the party has 14 provinces and autonomous regions and local party committees ? Provincial branch, the total number of three million party members. ? In Europe the Americas and Asia with offices in countries such as committees and branches to build ?.

 The party to promote democratization in Myanmar, but the NLD and Aung San Suu Kyi is the difference between the maximum and not with the junta to engage in all-round confrontation, not a simple Western-style democracy, but agreed to govern the country together with the soldiers to receive 20 1 zero years and the constitutional amendment election, the only way to steer a pragmatic military regime embarked on the path of democracy, and in the election based on the expression of local and ethnic views of all walks of life. NLD and Aung San fully blocked the path of reconciliation and cooperation.

 To do so, whether the opposition will bring about the secession of Myanmar? Aung San Suu Kyi and the West seems to be the only recognized political figure in Myanmar, the Democratic Party can eventually replace the NLD?

 The Democratic Party not to replace the other party’s ambitions. However, the NLD led by Aung San Suu Kyi’s struggle over the past two decades, did not achieve effective results, but also to allow Western countries to support the NLD’s resources exhausted.

 More importantly, the NLD is the “central revolutionary” and the Democratic Party there are states (autonomous regions and the people armed) backed by a stronger force in the country’s grass-roots, in fact, even the monks ? ? intellectuals students , but also slowly to see just by the West to support the NLD, the U.S. Asia strategy of a chess board, and there is no real reform in Myanmar’s nation-building plan is practicable, therefore, the military government in exile and house arrest ? repression under leadership has been lax, and many people joined the Democratic Party.

 Personally, I very much respect Aung San Suu Kyi, but also there is no means to replace her, but the current political situation in Myanmar under the military government may find it difficult to give the NLD the opportunity to Myanmar in the United States held a joint meeting of opposition forces, the United States and Europe UNITA can see the reality, and democracy is beginning to take an interactive party.

 Aung San led the West to support the NLD, the junta is anti-American pro-China, the Democratic Party as a third force, will not please all sides, and recognition of not being believed?

 Not like that. The establishment of the Chinese Communist regime, the containment of the blockade by the West in Yangon as a new channel for China to move toward the world, so to send Beijing a heavyweight Geng Biao as ambassador to Myanmar. The Bandung Conference, China’s accession to the United Nations on issues such as Myanmar, is an ally of Beijing, Mao Zedong, Zhou Enlai ? attach great importance to relations between China and Burma. As with China and Myanmar, there are more than the countries bordering-kilometer border with the Shan State and other (occupying more than half of Myanmar territory) a special relationship with China, the traditional history and culture, have to be to China as the most important ally, the Democratic co – Program of the party’s foreign affairs axis is to develop a healthier relationship between Burma and China closer, rather than the side of the United States ? Europe, or India.

 In fact, Beijing is also very clear that the military junta’s dictatorial rule, so that the international community, China suffered a number of criticisms, to pay a lot. If we can encourage the junta to reform, to allow Burma to harmony, which China is more than absolute profits. In addition, we have no objection to aunt Island (south-western Myanmar) to continue as China’s leading naval base in the Indian Ocean.

 You support the military government’s constitutional reform program, but also agreed to participate in the general election, with the military government has pushed the reform of the military government’s position on your attitude? Whether the development of space to you?

 The military junta ruling the country has come to the “exhausted” the point where, for example, hurricanes, open the floodgates of international assistance, but did not dare open the door to the Government of Myanmar to meet, for fear that the plight of Myanmar’s foreign aid and a sharp contrast to allow people more discontent with the Government’s incompetent rule.

 In addition, the military government by the military control of the central region of Shan State, Kachin State, and most other land ? can not effectively manage the integration of the national economy can not, therefore, the military government only through multi-party elections, the political parties into the local representatives public opinion in order to promote national reconciliation, reconstruction.