Foreign firms face tough choices over Myanmar unrest

This choice is only hard if you have no or very little in the way of moral values. What is wrong with people to do business with butchers like the Tatmadaw?

"Foreign firms face tough choices over Myanmar unrest"

Do any of these firms actually want to help with the situation in Myanmar or only rape the country of their money?

A dictatorship that murders its own people. This is not a hard choice.

It is always about the MONEY not people nor democracy!!!!

It doesn't seem like a hard choice to me. If you have any morals at all.

That said, maybe what they should all do is stop paying taxes to the military. UN or US/EU sanctions could require them to do just that, while also giving them some cover in doing so.

@MichaelMachida 7:04 am JST -unrest” -  (New master of BOLD type.) “We yield to you, sir.” - "Foreign firms face tough choices over Myanmar”

Japanese establishments have cute little posters saying that they won't conduct business with "anti-social groups" aka organized crime. Just change the name junta or military government to organized crime and voila; simple as that. Any company continuing to work in Myanmar is complicit. Divest now. Just FYI, along with the people's movement, foreign divestment played a major role in bringing down the apartheid government in S.A.

Sometimes the best way to put out a fire is with fire.

This Junta has over and over again shown NO regards for human lives or respect for the people demands. they have always shot their way to power.

The people of Myanmar must arm themselves and start fighting back.

The people of Myanmar must arm themselves and start fighting back.

Exactly, if they are waiting for the international community to come to their rescue it will never happen.

Exactly, if they are waiting for the international community to come to their rescue it will never happen.

Regardless of what the people of Myanmar do or do not do, there is no morally defendable reason for any foreign firm to continue doing business in Myanmar. Any firm that does so has placed profits ahead of human life. They are no better than the companies that operated in Manchukuo and occupied Korea.

Foreign companies should be getting out of that hell hole, simple as that. But sadly it wont happen. If China can get away with running a program of mass genocide and concentration camps, and foreign companies like Toyota, GM, Apple, TELSA etc are content to remain, there is no way they will feel obliged to leave Myanmar.

I place my hope in the people of Myanmar in waging a guerilla campaign against the military, public servants and police. Bomb them in their cars, bomb their living quarters and government buildings, and assassinate as many as possible. Hopefully other nations can get weapons and materials to make bombs into the hands of rebels.

partnerships with Total and US rival Chevron and generates annual revenues of around $1.0 billion from the sale of natural gas.

Not a tough choice for Chevron.

If companies won't do the right thing, then the govt in their home countries need to help them make the right choice.

I'd rather NOT have the people of Myanmar turn to assassination. Indonesia did that and it turned out terribly. The minorities living there have to see the killers of their relatives living the good life, in public, some hold govt offices.

I don't know the answer for Myanmar.

https://www.theverge.com/2021/4/1/22362767/myanmar-military-government-internet-shutdown-blackout-protest-free-speech

Myanmar’s government shuts down internet indefinitely in response to protests

The military leadership has ordered a wireless broadband shutdown without a deadline

That will make it hard to work for many companies.

I bet their Ring cameras and Nest thermostats stop working too. IoT problems.

Japan Finding It Hard to Stay Quiet on Abuse by Authoritarian Governments

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/01/world/asia/japan-uyghurs-xinjiang.html

Because Japan has been ruled by the same authoritarian one-party system of the LDP for decades. Japan is no different than many authoritarian regimes except for its friendliness with the US. Of course, the US is willing to overlook any authoritarian regime that cooperates with the Pentagon. Saudi Arabia is one hell of a big example!

This choice is only hard if you have no or very little in the way of moral values. What is wrong with people to do business with butchers like the Tatmadaw?

Difficult to put it more succinctly than this.

Not a tough choice for Chevron.

In 1991 I was flying helicopters for Columbia Helicopters. We supported Chevron on several of their international projects in countries like Peru, Papua New Guinea and Myanmar. I was asked to transfer from my current job providing support for Chevron and BPs Kutubu oil development project in PNG to their worksite in Myanmar. We all knew the Tatmadaw used slave labor on the several oil projects. I didn't want that on my soul.  I quite the company. Just could not bring myself to do it and it is a decision I have never once regretted.

Good for you DT!

It is hardly a tough choice not to cooperate with murderers!

It' seems that plenty of foreign corporations have no morality problems doing business in the PRC. Why would they have any issues doing the same in Myanmar?