President Xi anointed coup leader-turned-president with a lavish state ceremony in Beijing, before pressing for progress on Belt & Road projects, frontier security, and the scam crackdown.
While fierce fighting was going on elsewhere in the state, the regime bombed peaceful Kyauktaw in what appears to have been a deliberate terror attack on residential areas.
With dictator Min Aung Hlaing’s tycoon son in charge, residents in Mandalay’s Thone Taung have been given until June 20 to knock down their own properties or face the bulldozer.
ISP–Myanmar says it is “deeply troubled” by the arrest of its executive director, who has been a student of Chinese influence on Myanmar’s military regime.
Only minor armed groups that were coopted decades ago or signed the outdated National Ceasefire Agreement have come to the table under putschist president Min Aung Hlaing’s ultimatum.
Min Aung Hlaing is seeking a return to ASEAN summits by November, but the bloc insists on ‘meaningful progress’ on its peace plan as fighting and divisions persist.
This week our editors discuss the arrest in Kunming of the former student activist, ex-Irrawaddy culture editor and ISP Myanmar chief, who had been critical of Chinese policy in Myanmar.
