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Asean must step up in Myanmar, or watch others ‘rearrange the furniture’
The junta is isolated, the resistance has lost momentum and powers like China are stepping in. Asean needs to act.
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What is left of a school building damaged in a bombardment by Myanmar’s military in Depayin Township in Myanmar’s Sagaing region on May 12.
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How hapless must a people be before their siblings in the wider region even notice their pain?
That must be the question on the minds of millions of Myanmar people as they lurch from one crisis to the next while their Asean peers look away, caught up in their own slowing economies, fears of gathering joblessness and the threat of heavy American tariffs.
