This week in Myanmar: Min Aung Hlaing visits China for the first time since his 2021 coup, the Republican party wins elections in the United States of America, shaking up that country's foreign policy, and teachers continue to get shafted by the enfeebled Department of Education under the military regime's State Administration Council.
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Timecodes:
1m12s :: Weekly news digest
5m06s :: Changing U.S. policy under Trump elect
9m37s :: Min Aung Hlaing in China
15m46s :: Regime teachers getting shafted
23m16s :: Correspondence updates
Our guests:
Hunter Marston, PhD Candidate at the Australian National University, with publications:
Values over Interests: Variations in US–Myanmar Policy since 1988
The Pendulum of Non-Alignment: Charting Myanmar's Great Power Diplomacy (2011–2021)
Ya Nwe, Frontier Myanmar journalist, with reporting that includes:
Unpaid and abandoned: Myanmar junta fails displaced civil servants (discussed today)
Losing count: Chaotic census kicks off
Down and out in the delta: Rakhine IDPs struggle in Ayeyarwady
Anyar rising: Myanmar's Dry Zone PDFs up the ante
