Blog posts represent the views of CFR fellows and staff and not those of CFR, which takes no institutional positions. When Suu Kyi’s party triumphed in 2015, in the first free national elections since ...

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Burmese writer and historian Dr. Thant Myint-U discussed his new book, “The Hidden History of Burma: Race, Capitalism, and the Crisis of Democracy in the 21st Century” (2019), with an audience of ...

Thant Myint-U has titled his reflective and illuminating new book “The Hidden History of Burma,” even though he gently suggests that the country’s past wasn’t so much obscured as it was hiding in ...

The country’s prospects of democracy and development “have been repeatedly thwarted by a predatory military and an indifferent international community.” More than two years after Myanmar’s military ...

Burma is a third-world country with a long history of left-wing politics dating back to the colonial era. Unlike the rest of the world, politics in Burma was totally a battle between left-wing groups.

Burma needs the investment and since 1988 China has been the major foreign investor in Burma with projects totaling $20 billion so far. Burma told China it was working on special “debt trap” ...

August 8 is a date etched in blood. On this day in 1988, Myanmar’s military turned its guns on thousands of peaceful protesters in what is now remembered as the 8888 uprising. Although it was by no ...

Earlier this month, Myanmar’s leader Aung San Suu Kyi appeared before the International World Court of Justice in The Hague, calling on it to dismiss an accusation of genocide against her country’s ...

NEW YORK (NEWS10) — Nearly two years have passed since the military coup in Myanmar. Burmese civilian forces continue to fight against the rule of Senior General Min Aung Hlaing and his junta. While ...