The parallel civilian government is losing traction even as the Spring Revolution advances toward victory, warns a veteran Burmese politician.
Numerous armed organizations will claim victory if the regime falls – and each will be hesitant to surrender their hard-won territory.
Recent developments in Myanmar make it vital to heed the voices of those who have been laying the groundwork for a new and inclusive federal democracy in the country.
In Thailand, Burmese-American author Kenneth Wong finds a community of exiles whose homeland lies just across a river yet seems a million miles away.
Ethnic areas will never return to external control; there is still time to prevent balkanization, but a political agreement involving all players is needed.
When it comes time to put the shattered country back together, finding shared principles, rather than arguing territorial specifics, might be the place to start.
Economic, political and regional security challenges await the Srettha administration as Thailand emerges from a decade of military-led government.
The new realities on the ground demand a bold new imagination that looks beyond the conventional nation-state.
Deluded predictions of the junta’s impending fall, coupled with an imagined revolutionary unity, have cast the country’s future into darkness.
Thailand is stepping into a minefield with moves for joint humanitarian assistance in case of a refugee crisis on its border.
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