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Guest Column
Global aid donors such as the United Nations and the European Union appear to believe that it is business as usual in a Myanmar under military rule.
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Guest Column
The UWSA is consolidating a new Wa state that will bring Chinese influence near Thailand and set a self-rule model for other ethnic rebels.
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Burma
Also this week, the regime boss continued his preoccupations with pagoda rituals and disparaging the democratically elected government he overthrew.
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Huge new US Consulate General in the northern Thai city of Chiang Mai gives Washington an intelligence base close to both China and Myanmar.
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Burma
Many believe the proposed switch to a PR system is a tactic to make it easier for the military and its allies to form a government in the future.
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Guest Column
The generals know well that China has the means and the will to intervene on behalf of its substantial interests in Myanmar—not to mention a long history of doing so.
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Hit-and-run clashes with ethnic Burmese fighters in the heartland and urban guerrilla warfare now complicate the Tatmadaw’s traditional task of containing ethnic armies.
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Guest Column
Any future peace process must be genuinely inclusive and not repeat the mistakes made by both military and civilian governments of the past.
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Commentary
Beijing has long played a complex diplomatic game in its southern neighbor, hedging its bets by courting all stakeholders; the UN representation issue is no different.