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In a statement on February 1, 2021, President Joe Biden called the military takeover and imprisonment of elected leader Aung San Suu Kyi in Myanmar a “direct assault on the country’s transition to democracy and the rule of law.” He also threatened to review sanctions on that country and asked the international community to press the Burmese military to relinquish the power it unlawfully seized.