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February 13, 2012

North Korea
Some Worrying Signs in Myanmar

Over the past year, the news from Myanmar has been overwhelmingly positive, for the first time in decades. The latest U.S. official who may apparently visit the onetime pariah is Central Intelligence…

Shin Gambira (center), leader of the All-Burmese Monks Alliance, talks to supporters in January, 2012, after his release from prison. BBC News reported Friday that he has been once again taken away by Burmese authorities.

October 19, 2021

China
Beijing’s Grand Strategy, With Matt Pottinger

Matt Pottinger, senior advisor at the Marathon Initiative and chairman of the China Program at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, sits down with James M. Lindsay to discuss China’s ambitions …

Podcast Chinese students wave party and national flags at a ceremony marking the 100th anniversary of the Communist Party at Tiananmen Square on July 1, 2021 in Beijing, China.

August 30, 2010

Myanmar
Burma’s Looming Disaster

This past week, the Burmese generals captured global media attention by apparently stepping down from their posts in anticipation of the upcoming national elections, the country’s first in two deca…

Military personnel from the Democratic Karen Buddhist Army (DKBA), an ethnic militia battling Myanmar’s military junta, take part in a traditional New Year’s parade on the Myanmar-Thai border

April 25, 2018

United States
Close Social Media Loopholes to Protect Upcoming U.S. Elections

The 2018 U.S. midterms are less than eight months away, and Congress has done nothing to close loopholes that enable political advertising on social media to fuel disinformation and division. Time fo…

Zuck before Congress

December 3, 2018

Myanmar
Myanmar’s Conflicts Are Even Worse Than Often Discussed

Over the past two years, the international community, and much of the media, has focused on the situation in western Myanmar’s Rakhine State, where a brutal campaign against the Rohingya, reportedly …

Aung San Suu Kyi_1.12.2016