Michael Martin is an adjunct fellow at Washington's Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). He served as a specialist policy adviser on Myanmar, China, Hong Kong, and Vietnam for two decades. His work included a 15-year tenure as a political and economic analyst with the Congressional Research Service of the Library of Congress.
Myanmar's state media reported the military government has released 5,864 prisoners, including 180 foreign nationals, under amnesty for the country's independence day.
The EU should prepare to take a proactive role in addressing the Myanmar crisis as US President-elect Donald Trump looks set to disengage.
The article argues that Trump’s 2025 presidency will accelerate the breakdown of international democratic structures and law, building on policies established during Biden’s term. Biden’s vetoes at the UN Security Council and rejection of ICC warrants against Israeli leaders demonstrated America’s growing dismissal of international institutions.
President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee for Defence Secretary, Pete Hegseth, admitted to having limited knowledge about ASEAN, struggling to name even one member of the bloc during his Senate confirmation hearing on Tuesday.
Threat Status made an appearance on NewsNation Prime over the weekend to examine the New Orleans attacker’s secretive radicalization, and unpack the dual investigations into the New Orleans attack and the separate Tesla Cybertruck explosion in Las Vegas. Authorities say the two incidents are not linked.
World’s-richest-man Elon Musk, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, and Amazon chief Jeff Bezos are slated to attend the forty-seventh president’s inauguration next week, according to NBC News. The tech trio will be seated alongside elected officials and Trump’s Cabinet selections.
Donald Trump is expected to meet Republican U.S. senators on Wednesday, a Republican aide said on Monday, as the president-elect urges his party to combine his priorities into one massive bill.
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More than 3,000 global leaders will meet in Switzerland next week to seek solutions for some of the most pressing issues of the day