Did China's secret diplomacy and use of soft power led to the release of Aung Sang Suukyi from her house arrest recently ? China is scheduled to build two major hydro-electric power station projects bordering the Burmese-China river vicinity by harnessing the giant river water of northern Burma so as to provide power to her new industrial city in Sichuan province. It is an estimated US$5 billion project to develop the region's Economic Trade Zone to benefit the land locked hill regions of both countries. It will represent Burma's first industrial inland development and China's Fourth Phase inland development in the 21st century. This economic aid offered by China is too attractive tor the Burmese Military junta to ignore and it is made on condition that Aung Sang Suukyi is to be released from house arrest and her future remains a Burmese internal matter. One feels that her life is in mortal danger from now on .
Secret diplomacy remains a very potent element within the practice of old diplomacy, and whether for good or bad, continue to be a major influence in international relations.
The 2003 Second Iraq War was conducted via secret diplomacy between the US-Britain and a handful of willing allies and vassal states. It has also been used to settle the Libya-Lockerbie dispute and led to the resumption of diplomatic relations with the UK.
Although secret diplomacy has it's usefulness it also has its dark side of hegemony and conspiracy which may not appeal to some observers .
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