Can China be Myanmar’s Good Neighbor While Maintaining Its Non-interference Principle?
Chinese President Xi Jinping (right) and Myanmar State Counselor Daw Aung San Suu Kyi (left) at the launch ceremony for events to mark the 70th anniversary of China-Myanmar diplomatic relations in Naypyitaw in January 2020. / Myanmar State Counselor’s Office / Facebook
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By Debby S.W. Chan 9 March 2021
A month after the military’s seizure of power in Myanmar, China is still reluctant to characterize the situation as a coup. Instead, it urges “all parties” to exercise restraint regardless of the rise of civilian casualties in the crisis. In his latest response to the Myanmar’s political turmoil on March 7, Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi stated, “China supports the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) to uphold the principles of non-interference in internal affairs and making decisions through consensus, mediate in the ASEAN way and seek common g
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Meghan and Harry’s bombshell interview
Hours after the interview was broadcast in the U.S. on Sunday, Britain was already grappling with the shock wave rippling out across the Atlantic, exposing a deep royal rift.
For many Black Britons, in particular, the interview offered a scathing assessment of the royal family and resurfaced barely submerged tensions over entrenched racism.
Recap: Meghan Markle made dramatic disclosures, including that there were “concerns and conversations about how dark” her son Archie’s skin might be when she was pregnant with him. (Harry later said neither Queen Elizabeth II nor Prince Philip was the source of that comment.) Meghan also disclosed that her life as a member of the royal family had become so emotionally desolate that she contemplated suicide. When she asked for help, she sai
After Coup in Myanmar, a Career Diplomat Takes a Stand
At the United Nations, U Kyaw Moe Tun declared his new military masters illegitimate. They fired him, but he has no intention of leaving.
“I wanted to do something with maximum impact,” U Kyaw Moe Tun said of his Feb. 26 speech at the United Nations, where he denounced the generals now ruling Myanmar.Credit.Celeste Sloman for The New York Times
Published March 6, 2021Updated March 11, 2021
He knew his voice was quavering. But U Kyaw Moe Tun, Myanmar’s top envoy at the United Nations, kept going. The military rulers who had overthrown Myanmar’s elected government and gunned down peaceful protesters were illegitimate, he said.
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U.N. Says 38 Are Killed in Myanmar in âBloodiest Dayâ Since Coup Began
As the militaryâs crackdown against demonstrators grows more deadly, the U.N.âs special representative for the country said the junta had rejected her requests to visit.
Family and relatives mourned a man who had been shot and killed by the security forces during a crackdown on Wednesday against protesters on the outskirts of Yangon, Myanmar.Credit.The New York Times
Published March 3, 2021Updated March 5, 2021
At least 38 people were killed in Myanmar on Wednesday, the biggest one-day toll in a worsening repression of anti-coup protests, the United Nations special representative for the country said.