The Tokhang campaign suffers from assuming that local officials are trustworthy and the information they provide accurate.
Tag: southeast asia
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An overly sanguine response would nonetheless ignore the fact that the immediate result of an anti-China ruling might be no more than formalized rejection of its actions, which will likely continue apace.
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The culture of silence around the treatment of Rohingya and other ethnic groups in Myanmar poses some important questions.
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It is unclear whether Duterte has the ability to maintain the fragile network of alliances that have led to his electoral success.
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Indonesia’s well-crafted ambiguity and position of neutrality in the South China Sea has increasingly come under scrutiny from members of the nation’s strategic community.
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Even a false specter of ISIS in the region will empower those opposed to the peace process and who instead favor pursuit of a military victory against local Islamists.
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The disconnection between message and tangible realities is likely to blame for the lack of meaningful outcomes attributed to countering violent extremism.
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Despite many ethnic groups lacking sizeable representation in parliament, Myanmar’s next government needs their support to continue pursuing a peaceful solution to the ongoing conflicts in many parts of the country.
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The great risk remains that this pattern of action and reaction might eventually escalate into conflict, as a top Chinese official acknowledged, or perhaps warned, yesterday.
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What cannot be doubted is that more than half the population in Myanmar has had little formal opportunity to engage in the peace or parliamentary process.
