As Burma moves ahead with a controversial election Sunday, the United States is trying to fine-tune its policy -- maintaining dialogue with the military regime, but also stepping up pressure.
A Burma Buddhist monk walks past a board showing a junta-backed Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP) electoral poster in Rangoon on November 2, 2010. As Burma moves ahead with a controversial election Sunday, the United States is trying to fine-tune its policy -- maintaining dialogue with the military regime, but also stepping up pressure.
President Barack Obama's administration has made engagement a signature principle of its foreign policy and last year initiated talks with the junta, hoping to nudge Burma out of its isolation.
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