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Charlie Thame

@charliethame.bsky.social
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Assoc. Prof. of International Relations, Thammasat University, Bangkok. IR, critical theory, political economy, Southeast Asia.

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Charlie Thame @charliethame.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
“Across Asia, street vendors are paying the price for a war thousands of miles away, left exposed by the lack of government support for informal workers at a time of fiscal shock" hardstories.org/stories/gend...
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A distant war reaches the women who feed Bangkok
Every morning before sunrise, Praewpan Nadtanara pushes a cart of curries and noodles through the streets of Bangkok. A distant war has made that harder than it used to be.
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Charlie Thame @charliethame.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Emily Hong's new book on Kachinland 👇
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Charlie Thame @charliethame.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Next week in Bangkok - Lessons from the Zapatistas, Lia Pinheiro, Peter Rosset
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European International Studies Association (EISA) @europeanisa.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
📖 Published in June 2026, Dialectical Dialogues in Global International Relations (by Shannon Brincat) brings together scholars who use dialectical methods from a variety of philosophical and civilizational systems to examine core problems in world politics 🔗 Learn more here: bit.ly/43fYn7u
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Charlie Thame @charliethame.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
A version of my EJIR article on Myanmar's Spring Revolution has been published in the International Marxist Humanist Organization Journal with a theoretical postscript on my social relational, historical materialist approach to IR. imhojournal.org/articles/mya...
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Myanmar’s Redemptive Revolution - IMHO Journal
Summary: First appeared in European Journal of International Relations (Sept. 2024) doi.org/10.1177/13540661241289445 ; republished here with a theoretical postscript -- Editors
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Charlie Thame @charliethame.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
This morning: the last in our Revolution & World Politics series: Dr. Janjira Sombatpoonsiri on "Gen. Z Protests in Asia: Autocratic Backlash, Repression, and Stagnation". Entirely online, all welcome! 10.00 AM - 12.00 PM (GMT+7, Bangkok) Registration: zoom.us/meeting/regi...
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Xun-ling Au 歐迅灵 🏴 @xunlingau.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
With a huge Junta push against Chin resistance forces underway to retake Falam & Surbung Airport, now is a good time to support AIF Myanmar who are working with Chin forces to fight the Junta.
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Junta closes in on Falam, threatens Chin State's only airport
Capture of Surbung Airport could give the military an air resupply route to retake the state, defectors warn
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Charlie Thame @charliethame.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Join us on Wed (10am BKK) for my Marxist humanist take on revolution in the 21stC, the world-historical context of Myanmar’s Spring Revolution, and how Myanmar is central, not peripheral, to transformations of world order. Now online only. Register here: zoom.us/meeting/regi...
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Charlie Thame @charliethame.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Join me for the morning shift tomorrow am at #HistorlcalMaterialism 2026. I’ll be presenting on internationalism in Myanmars Spring Revolution.
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Charlie Thame @charliethame.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Join us this week for our second of four seminars on "Revolution and World Politics" with: "Lessons from the Zapatistas: From Armed Insurgency to People’s Autonomy" by Prof. Lia Pinheiro Barbosa & Prof. Peter Rosset. In person in Bangkok and online via Zoom.
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Charlie Thame @charliethame.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
This is a very good analysis of the shortcomings of and missteps by Thailand's People's Party. www.newmandala.org/a-reckoning-...
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A reckoning for Thailand’s liberals - New Mandala
How the People’s Party failed its own cause
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Charlie Thame @charliethame.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Join us next week as we commence the Revolution and World Politics series with Professor George Lawson @georgelawson.bsky.social. His talk, ‘Revolutions are Back!’, will be delivered online on Wednesday 18th at 10am Bangkok time.
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Charlie Thame @charliethame.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Excited to announce this stellar line up for our seminar series "Revolution and World Politics" hosted by the Faculty of Political Science, Thammasat University. Please join us for four talks in person, online, and hybrid in March and April.
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Charlie Thame @charliethame.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
An insightful interview exploring Myanmar's Spring Revolution from an anarchist perspective. “Many comrades I once struggled alongside are now armed. Five years have passed. They are no longer the same people. The gun has become their form of power.” crimethinc.com/2026/02/10/f...
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Five Years of Coup: Burmese Anarchists within and without the Revolution
An activist who has organized in Burma and Thailand across a period of decades discusses the various ways people have resisted even under a military coup.
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Charlie Thame @charliethame.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
KIO's rejoinder to China: "A high-ranking Chinese official asked us if we think we can defeat the military council. We asked in return - didn't those who were supported by America and Russia eventually flee to Taiwan, while those who had no one's support won? After that, they said nothing more."
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Charlie Thame @charliethame.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
“Rise of the People” Thai punk rock released on eve of Thai Election 2026 youtu.be/OgJRGJUNIVI “Wake up, we are the people. Rise up and fight it, authoritarians. Wake up, we are the people. Sing the melody of the masses.“
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StageClear - เราคือประชาชน (Rise of the People)
YouTube video by StageClear Official Channel
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Otter Office Art #NoWarThaiCambodia 🕊 @otteroffice-art.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
ดูดีกว่าที่คิด!!!
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Charlie Thame @charliethame.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
This is really good on the predicament faced by progressives in Thailand as regards the question of the party in the bourgeois state. fulcrum.sg/the-roots-of...
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The Roots of the People’s Party’s Pragmatism | FULCRUM
As the People’s Party moves towards elite accommodation and electoral pragmatism, it is facing a growing crisis of identity and legitimacy.
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Charlie Thame @charliethame.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
'We shouted together, “Neither Shah nor Mullah, Power to the Councils!”. ... they’ve made us feel so powerless that we always think we need a savior to pull us out of our predicament, but it’s us who have come to the streets and struggled for years.'
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Longing for Liberation, Trapped Between Two Reactionary Forces – Feminists4Jina
A report from December–January 2025 (Dey 1404) , Tehran — days of tension, anxiety, and disbelief - The following text is a report by a comrade who has recently left Iran. It is based on their direct ...
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Milk Tea Alliance Calendar @mtacalendar.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
Fri: @epf.bsky.social will give talk "The Political economy of Rohingya mass violence: The Centrifugal/Centripetal Dialectic of Racial Capitalism" w/ @charliethame.bsky.social at Thammasat University, Bangkok & University of Konstanz host screening of "Thabyay: Creative Resistance in Myanmar" 10/
BIR/MIR International Seminar Series 2025
THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF ROHINGYA MASS VIOLENCE:
The Centrifugal/Centripetal Dialectic of Racial Capitalism
Speaker:
ELLIOTT PRASSE-FREEMAN
(Assistant Professor of Anthropology,
National University of Singapore )
CHAIRED BY:
DR. CHARLIE THAME
(Associate Professor of International Relations,
Thammasat University)
Registration
Friday, 12 December, 2025
10.00 AM - 12.00 PM
Venue: Room 102, Faculty of Political Science
Thammasat University (Tha Prachan)Film Screening With Discussion 
Thabyay: Creative Resistance in Myanmar
12 December 2025 
12:00h - 14:00h 
at HTWG, Lecture Hall L007 (Cinema) 
free admission
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Charlie Thame @charliethame.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
For those in Bangkok next week please join us on Tha Prachan campus to hear Elliott Prasse-Freeman (@epf.bsky.social) to discuss his ongoing research. "The Political Economy of Rohingya Mass Violence: The Centrifugal/Centripetal Dialectic of Racial Capitalism"
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International Theory @internatltheory.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
#OpenAccess from our latest issue - The tripartite structure of critical international theory - cup.org/4nZPiaJ "proposes a more radical and realistic approach to critical international theory based on a reappraisal of Andrew Linklater’s oeuvre" - @charliethame.bsky.social
International Theory abstract discussing  the breakdown of liberal hegemony, the rise of the New Right, and critiques in international relations theory, referencing scholars such as Andrew Linklater.
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Charlie Thame @charliethame.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
My latest article on critical international theory now has an issue
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Charlie Thame @charliethame.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
La Via Campesina's statement of solidarity with Myanmar: "Working people and peasants remain the backbone of Myanmar’s resistance ... We stand in unwavering solidarity with Myanmar’s peasants and working people — and with their Spring Revolution!" viacampesina.org/en/2025/10/m...
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Myanmar: La Via Campesina in Solidarity with Peasants and Workers facing brutal repression
For over four and a half years, the junta has deliberately sabotaged local food production. Today, 16.7 million people (29% of the population) face hunger — up from 13.3 million in 2024.
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Charlie Thame @charliethame.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
"Three historical arcs shaped Sudan’s path: colonial extraction, the security-rent state, and the popular revolution." This brilliant account of Sudan's revolution foregrounds three historical dynamics that also drive Myanmar's. abuhureirah.substack.com/p/sudan-at-t...
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Sudan at the Crossroads of Empire
Revolution, Counterrevolution, and the UAE’s Subimperial Ambitions
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Charlie Thame @charliethame.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
The Brazilian IR journal World Tensions has just published an open-access thematic double issue on Marxism and International Relations that includes an interview with me in English and Portuguese. 1/4 revistas.uece.br/index.php/te...
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Imperialism and Subimperialism in the Great Mekong Subregion | Tensões Mundiais https://revistas.uece.br/index.php/tensoesmundiais/index
Tensões Mundiais dedica-se à livre e gratuita divulgação acadêmica interdisciplinar, publicando trabalhos relativos ao tema “nações e nacionalismos”.
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Charlie Thame @charliethame.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
"Myanmar is undergoing a process of revolutionary state-building that offers a choice: back the population to reimagine the nature of the state & pursue justice, or continue down the current path that enables the junta’s destruction & undermines ASEAN." thediplomat.com/2025/10/supp...
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Supporting Myanmar Beyond the ‘ASEAN Way’
Addressing the military’s impunity and supporting the emerging “pluralistic state,” is the only effective way forward for the bloc.
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Charlie Thame @charliethame.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
Since 2022 Gen Z has organised revolutions & dethroned rulers in Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Indonesia, the Philippines, Kenya, Morocco, Nepal, Madagascar, & Peru. Countries w/a combined pop. of 790 million people, making it the largest wave of revolt in human history. foreignpolicy.com/2025/10/17/g...
foreignpolicy.com
Gen Z Is Taking to the Barricades
Here’s why you should be paying attention.
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Charlie Thame @charliethame.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
1/3. I wrote an article over four years ago arguing that economic corridors were an essentially extractivist paradigm that facilitate the reproduction of imperial-hierarchical relations across the international ... theconversation.com/donald-trump...
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Donald Trump’s vision for Gaza’s future: what a leaked plan tells us about US regional strategy
A glossy 38-page plan for the redevelopment of Gaza envisages a futuristic mix of smart manufacturing, luxury resorts and the ‘voluntary relocation’ of Palestinians.
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Cominsitu @cominsitu.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
21st century battle of green state capitalism vs brown climate barbarism off to a good start
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David A. Welch @davidawelch.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
New article: The tripartite structure of critical international theory, by @charliethame.bsky.social, doi.org/10.1017/S175... @internatltheory.bsky.social
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The tripartite structure of critical international theory | International Theory | Cambridge Core
The tripartite structure of critical international theory
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Charlie Thame @charliethame.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
The Tripartite Structure of Critical International Theory doi.org/10.1017/S175... For those interested in critical theory / IR, my latest, OA in @internatltheory.bsky.social Part homage to Andrew Linklater (@interpolaber.bsky.social), part statement of my approach to IR, developed through his
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Charlie Thame @charliethame.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
"The war is about elites in Bangkok and Phnom Penh weaponizing myth to distract from corruption, inequality, and repression. The people who pay the price are the rural poor, not the generals, oligarchs, or bureaucrats who send them to die." jacobin.com/2025/08/thai...
jacobin.com
The Thailand-Cambodia War Was About Shoring Up Elite Power
Thailand and Cambodia shocked observers by going to war last month. The destructive border conflict doesn’t stem from an upsurge of popular nationalism: the political elites in both countries needed a...
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
BBC International Editor Jeremy Bowen has confirmed that the entire Al Jazeera team in Gaza City has been killed.
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Charlie Thame @charliethame.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
Khmer voices for peace: "Every dollar spent on weapons is a dollar stolen from the people ... Whether it’s a mother shielding her children in a Thai convenience store or an old man praying in a Cambodian pagoda, every innocent life lost is a tragedy ... we must agree on this."
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Innocents Die, Nationalism Wins—At What Cost?
In the fog of war along the Cambodia–Thailand border, one truth cuts through the propaganda: more civilians are dying than soldiers. Despite claims fro...
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Xun-ling Au 歐迅灵 🏴 @xunlingau.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
Sign says: “Stop harming Cambodian workers. They don't know anything about this. If you want to show off how cool you are, go live at the border instead. Don't pick on people who can't fight back. That's not cool at all, you bastxrds.'" Good stuff & brave of the driver to speak up like that.
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Charlie Thame @charliethame.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
"In Bangkok there is a rogue military holding a civilian government hostage, in Phnom Penh a state gutted by the fever dreams of the Chicago School, both perpetrating a completely unjust and unnecessary conflict. The only losers in this war ... will be the poor of Thailand and Cambodia."
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Charlie Thame @charliethame.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
Thai voices for peace: statement from Assembly of the Poor. “We resist the ultra patriotism and militarism that makes states turn their back on people, while manipulating fear, hatred and loss as their political instruments.”
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Charlie Thame @charliethame.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
Wonderful interview, moving and inspiring in equal measure. Well worth your time.
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Charlie Thame @charliethame.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
Interview w/Paul Chambers: academic freedom in Thailand is in crisis, administrators lack courage to protect academics from security forces. www.bbc.com/thai/article...
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คุยกับ ดร.พอล แชมเบอร์ส ในวันที่มองว่าเสรีภาพทางวิชาการแย่กว่า 30 ปีก่อน - BBC News ไทย
บีบีซีไทยพูดคุยกับ ดร.พอล แชมเบอร์ส ถึงบทบาทของกองทัพ ความช่วยเหลือจากสถานทูตสหรัฐฯ และมุมมองของเขาต่อเสรีภาพทางวิชาการในไทย
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Charlie Thame @charliethame.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
Exciting news: a new special collection at TU library. 150+ books on Thai & SEA history, political economy, & IR, donated by prof. Kullada Kesboonchoo-Mead. Mostly Thai language but some English too. Full list here: bit.ly/3ZSEjqk
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Charlie Thame @charliethame.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
Postdoc in IR/PolSci in Bangkok next year. 6-12 months including a modest stipend & visa support. Link is a bit clumsy (seems admin must approve access) but further details here: lnkd.in/eW_sVc5b
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Insight Myanmar Podcast @insightmyanmar.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
“The revolution doesn’t end with the military being defeated…” In our latest episode, political analyst Charlie Thame unpacks Myanmar’s Spring Revolution—not just as a fight for democracy, but as a redemptive uprising to fulfill decades of broken promises. insightmyanmar.org/complete-sho...
insightmyanmar.org
Episode #348: Spring Awakening — Insight Myanmar
A fierce push for sovereignty against military rule and global indifference
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Charlie Thame @charliethame.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Interesting interview w/ former UN humanitarian chief: - international community complicit in Gaza, indifferent in Sudan - need to rethink IO beyond UN, more open to the people, South, and better w/aid - Syria shows war works - met w/ "awful people" in Naypyitaw foreignpolicy.com/2025/05/28/g...
foreignpolicy.com
How to Think About Solutions in Gaza and Sudan
Former U.N. humanitarian chief Martin Griffiths on the need to talk to all sides, no matter how repugnant.
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James Stout @jamesstout.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
The person removed is Burmese, and likely can’t be removed to Myanmar because of the ongoing military dictatorship and its war against revolutionary forces there. So they removed him to South Sudan instead
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Charlie Thame @charliethame.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
Shameful by UK gov. Kyaw Zwar Minn stated in 2022 that he would leave the house when ASSK was released or the UK recognised the NUG; that he would only hand over the house "to the legitimate, elected government of Myanmar, not to the military". Good on him. www.reuters.com/world/uk-cha...
reuters.com
UK charges exiled Myanmar ambassador with trespassing at diplomatic residence
British police charged Myanmar's former ambassador to the United Kingdom with trespassing on a diplomatic residence in London that he has refused to leave since being ousted for opposing Myanmar's 2021 military coup.
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Charlie Thame @charliethame.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Excellent news. world.thaipbs.or.th/detail/lse-m...
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Lèse majesté charge against American academic dropped
The director-general of the Region 6 Public Prosecutors’ Office decided today to drop lèse majesté and computer crime charges against American academic Paul Cha
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Phil Robertson @reaproy.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
US academics are now mobilizing to support Paul Chambers! The American Political Science Association sent a strong letter to Sec of State Rubio, US Congress, & Thai gov't to demand that #Thailand drop all criminal charges against Chambers. Full text of letter here: apsanet.org/wp-content/u...
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Charlie Thame @charliethame.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
New books!
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Charlie Thame @charliethame.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
International actors are pushing for a negotiated settlement to Myanmar’s revolution. As Ye Myo Hein argues, this is unrealistic for two main reasons: www.foreignaffairs.com/china/chinas...
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China’s Double Game in Myanmar
How Beijing is manipulating civil conflict to secure regional dominance.
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