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China Withholds Full Legitimacy From Myanmar Junta: Old Wine in a New Bottle?

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Commentary

By Aung Zaw

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.

China’s Embrace of the Taliban Has a Painful Resonance in Myanmar

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Commentary

By Aung Zaw

The people of Myanmar sympathize with their counterparts in Afghanistan, another strategically vital neighbor of China whose descent into dictatorship Beijing welcomes.

Myanmar’s Military Chief Staged a Coup. But He Did Not Act Alone

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Commentary

By Naing Khit

Than Shwe envisioned permanent political supremacy for the military. Thein Sein’s attempt to realize it was rejected by the people. Min Aung Hlaing’s coup is Plan B.

What Will the ASEAN Envoy Be Allowed to Achieve in Myanmar?

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Commentary

By Aung Zaw

The appointment of Erywan Yusof as special envoy could offer the junta a face-saving way of sparing the country from total disaster, but that is unlikely to happen.

ASEAN Lags Behind Myanmar Curve

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Commentary

By Thitinan Pongsudhirak

The group’s appointment of a special envoy is likely to prove too little, too late for what has been desperately needed on the ground.

COVID-19 Unmasks Myanmar Regime’s Callousness and Incompetence

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Commentary

By DAKKHA

Rather than taking responsibility for not acting early, the coup leader has blamed the new variants for the high infection and death tolls.

For Myanmar’s Top Generals, Overturning Election Results Is a Rite of Passage

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Commentary

By Naing Khit

Despite the wishful thinking of the past decade, the Tatmadaw leadership have never accepted basic democratic norms like elections, and they never will.

Myanmar's Coup Leader Shows His Genocidal Intent

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Commentary

By Naing Khit

For Min Aung Hlaing, throwing political enemies like U Nyan Win into COVID-infested jails is just another method of exterminating them.

Myanmar Hit by the Two Cs—Coup d’Etat and COVID-19 

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Opinion

By Naing Khit

Through its incompetence, Myanmar’s dictatorial junta has exacerbated the country’s third wave of COVID-19.

Amid This ‘Great Depression’, Myanmar’s People Will Never Give Up

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Commentary

By Naing Khit

Because it came at a time of such hope, the most recent coup feels harder to bear psychologically than its predecessors. But history shows that the people will prevail.

The ‘Problem’ With Myanmar’s Daw Aung San Suu Kyi

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Commentary

By Naing Khit

Detained yet again by the generals who despise her, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi’s only ‘mistake’ has been to honor her commitment to the people who chose her as their leader.

Myanmar Junta’s Efforts to Kill the NLD Will Always Fail

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Commentary

By Naing Khit

The current regime leader is going even further than his predecessors in trying to bury the country’s most popular party; he will be even less successful.

Comfortable in the ‘Generals’ Village’, the UN and EU Lined Myanmar Military’s Pockets

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Commentary

By Aung Zaw

A few short years ago, the global elite who now so loudly condemn the coup were rewarding the ‘reformist’ generals with an obscene boom in Yangon’s property market.

Myanmar’s ‘Khaki Commerce’ Set to Flourish Under Junta

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Commentary

By Bertil Lintner

Few military officers have shown as much greed as Snr-Gen Min Aung Hlaing, and there is little doubt he is clinging to power to protect his economic interests.

For Myanmar’s Junta Forces, a New Sense of Vulnerability

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Commentary

By DAKKHA

Each day in Yangon and beyond, the regime’s increasingly besieged troops and police appear less like swaggering bullies and more like fearful targets.