Beijing is quietly influencing the junta’s election process and regime-allied parties through training, technological assistance and regional diplomacy.
Read moreDetailsBeijing is quietly influencing the junta’s election process and regime-allied parties through training, technological assistance and regional diplomacy.
Condescending takes on Myanmar by widely read media and think tanks misrepresent the revolution, blame the victims and aid the junta by feeding false narratives.
Survivors of sexual abuse in Myanmar speak out online not to embrace ‘mob culture’ but because formal systems fail to deliver justice.
The MNDAA calls it ‘progress’, but Chinese-funded redevelopment in northern Shan is pushing locals to the margins economically, culturally and politically.
Beijing’s sophisticated repression network is expanding rapidly worldwide, threatening sovereignty, human rights, and democracy.
U Soe Thane, once hailed as the int’l face of U Thein Sein’s 2011...
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