Myanmar is now deftly playing the same multi-alignment game mastered by countries such as Kazakhstan in trying to escape the Soviet-Russian sphere of influence: courting all sides and gaining whatever one can from multiple great powers and neighbors while giving up as little autonomy as possible.

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Mr Blunkett, a close ally of Mr Blair, argues in an article for the Observer that Mr Miliband's stated aim of making Labour a "one-nation party" should be "about a great deal more than politics built on grievance and the unhappiness of a resentful and selfish public sphere".

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