China’s response to the suffering of cyclone survivors in Myanmar has exposed the limits of its ability — and arguably its willingness — to press even close allies to change set habits, analysts say.
With the junta in Myamnar refusing to admit foreign aid workers and curbing the distribution of emergency supplies, UN and other agencies warn the death toll could rise far higher than the official 60,000 dead or missing.
Only a quarter of the victims have received any help at all, triggering a race against time to reach more than a million critically short of food, water and other aid and stalked by hunger and disease.
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