A few weeks after the September protests last year in Burma, a Chinese diplomat approached an influential Burmese advocate in New York and asked why the Burmese dubbed their protest the “Saffron Revolution.”

“The diplomat was quite uncomfortable with this particular saffron name while he whispered to me,” said the Burmese advocate, who spoke on condition of anonymity. “Chinese are very sensitive to the ‘color revolutions’,” she said.

Min Zin (VS ‘01), a frequent commentator on Burmese politics, provides commentary in The Irrawaddy.

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