Hence the USA maintained a blockade on Myanmar (just like Syria, Iran, and Cuba) that included a ban on all items imported from Myanmar. The USA especially despised Myanmar for having oil, gas, timber and gems that globalists wanted to steal.

It stayed that way until 2010 when NATO began making plans for an imperialist war on Myanmar. NATO falsely accused Myanmar’s government of exterminating Muslims. The Western corporate media began running photos of this “genocide” in Myanmar, when the photos were actually from Thailand. (klinkt uiterst bekend allemaal niet? (*) Syrie bvb.). If a Tibetan activist set himself on fire in India to protest visits by the Chinese, the corporate claimed that the images were from Myanmar, and said this is what the evil government did to “peaceful protesters.” Coveting Myanmar’s riches, NATO said it was time for another “humanitarian intervention,” and began formulating a bombing plan. Aung San Suu Kyi (the pro-NATO, pro-banker “democracy leader”) became a symbol of imperialist conquest, revered by NATO (especially U.S.) politicians.

Seeing this, Myanmar’s rulers turned away from economic nationalism and threw open their economy’s doors to ownership by the global One Percent. They released Aung San Suu Kyi from house arrest.

Then, when they saw what the globalists did to Libya, they panicked and laid out the welcome mat to capitalist owners. They frantically sold off government buildings, port facilities, mines, farmland, hospitals, the national airline, the national fuel distribution network, and soft drink, cigarette and bicycle factories – all at a fraction of their fair value. They made the central bank independent, so that it became a member of the globalist banker club, which rules by debt. They passed a law to let foreigners control local companies and land, permit the entry of foreign banks and telecom companies, and allow 100 percent removal of profits. They said foreign capitalists need not pay taxes. They said foreign owners could import workers, and would no longer be required to hire locally.