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The isolation ward 闭关锁国 （陈继龙 译） Mar 1st 2007 From The Economist print edition MOST writing about the benighted[1] land of Burma, dubbed Myanmar by the grotesque[2] junta running it, falls into one of two traps. Either it plumps[3] for simplification, which is pardonable given the justness of its moral outrage. The conflict does indeed come closer than almost any other to one between baddies (the junta) and the followers of a super-goody (the almost-permanently detained opposition leader, Aung San Suu Kyi).At the other extreme, some writers become bogged down[4] in the bewildering complexity