CSPAN3 U.S.-Myanmar Relations October 26, 2017
Foreign Relations Committee will come to order. I want to thank each of you for being here. We thank you. Its very timely. In 2009, the Obama Administration shifted the direction of u. S. Policy taking a leap of faith in an approach combining in engagement and pressure would usher in democratic reform where sanctions alone had failed. Although many were skeptical of such a shift, 2010 elections provided an opportunity to test the credibility of a more proactive engagement approach. And in the ensuing years the United States worked to balance engagement with the military jon ta and the democrat...