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Guest Column
World events have brought to Southeast Asia a new era of confrontation and conflict, this time led by—but not limited to—US-China geostrategic rivalry and competition.
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Junta Watch
Also this week, the regime shows once again it is living in fantasyland, discussing plans for food security and tourism, even as it undermines both.
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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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Burma
New Delhi is fearful of renewed activity by Indian separatist groups based in Sagaing Region and allied to the military regime.
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Guest Column
The proposed canal linking the Gulf with the Andaman Sea has adverse economic and security implications for Thailand and all ASEAN nations.
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Guest Column
The military’s future role in politics needs to be appropriate for a country where governance must be based on the people and their rights.
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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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Guest Column
The message of the foreign minister’s visit is that New Delhi will continue to call for democracy while talking with junta leaders to mitigate India’s security concerns.
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Guest Column
In his uncharacteristic recent criticism of the Myanmar junta, Cambodian strongman and new ASEAN chair Hun Sen is likely just playing ‘bad cop’ to Beijing’s ‘good cop.’
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Guest Column
Amid a changed security landscape since the Feb. 1 military coup, the Indian rebel group and others appear to be reasserting their presence inside Myanmar.
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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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Burma
Meitei armed groups based along the Myanmar-India Border are fighting in Sagaing Region alongside junta troops against civilian resistance forces.
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Burma
Residents recount how regime soldiers and armed militia executed 18 villagers and looted and burned down homes on September 9.
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Guest Column
Reports that the junta’s crackdown on political foes has diverted resources from drug interdiction recycle old fallacies about the narcotics trade in Myanmar.
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Analysis
Despite post-coup chaos, the COVID-19 pandemic and rising anti-China sentiment, the military regime is pushing forward with Beijing-backed infrastructure projects.