Myanmar’s Parliament unanimously called for a ceasefire, but the next steps remain in the hands of the military and Kachin rebels
Tag: southeast asia
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The democratization of Myanmar has a lot in common with South Korea, which has achieved astonishing political developments since the 1990s after overcoming a dictatorship.
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Although regional cooperation needs still to be boosted in the region, ASEAN has established itself as an indispensable political framework in the Southeast Asia region in recent years.
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Thant Myint-U’s new book provides a valuable historical and geographical compass to better understand the context of the latest developments in Myanmar.
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While progress continues in Myanmar, there can be no shortcut to democracy.
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As Myanmar goes through this transition, much depends on the international, and especially regional and Western, responses to the domestic changes.
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As the Global Observatory reported in June, territorial disputes in the South China Sea (SCS) have led to a period of diplomatic tensions, particularly between China, the Philippines, and Vietnam. On July 21st, at the end of a two-day ASEAN-China foreign ministers meeting in Bali, an agreement on a set of new guidelines for dealing […]
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On June 26th–a month after the first of the recent incidents –Vietnam and China announced that they have agreed to hold talks on resolving the sovereignty conflict. It is too soon to tell which direction these talks might take, whether they can be considered a success of China’s attempts to resolve the dispute bilaterally or […]
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The risk of confrontation in the South China Sea (SCS) is increasing as a result of recent maritime disputes between China and Vietnam. During two incidents on May 26th and June 9th, Vietnamese oil exploration vessels conducting seismic surveys were harassed by Chinese ships. This has brought to a head the long-standing territorial dispute over […]