Thailand’s Unreliability as Broker Makes Peace Even More Elusive in Myanmar
Paul Chambers
Thailand’s efforts to mediate the peace in Myanmar are complicated by the kingdom’s extensive interests in the country.

Paul Chambers
Thailand’s efforts to mediate the peace in Myanmar are complicated by the kingdom’s extensive interests in the country.
Surachanee Sriyai
Myanmar resistance groups depend on Starlink to circumvent government controls. But this can also be its Achilles heel.
Jared Bissinger
Myanmar’s economy in 2024 continued to struggle with slow growth, high inflation, increasing poverty, and declining real wages. Its near-term economic prospects are weak, weighed down by conflict, outmigration, uncertainty, and State Administration Council (SAC) policies that extract from the real economy to resource the regime.
Napon Jatusripitak
Anwar Ibrahim, the prime minister of Malaysia, has roped in former Thai premier Thaksin Shinawatra as his informal advisor ahead of Kuala Lumpur assuming the ASEAN chairmanship. This might be ill-advised.
Htet Hlaing Win
Four years of civil strife and conflict, compounded by forced conscription, have led to Myanmar’s dire human resources crunch.
Su Mon Thazin Aung
The Trump Administration’s decision to terminate foreign aid has crippling effects on the humanitarian landscape in Myanmar.
Nyi Nyi Kyaw
The authorities of affected countries should crack down on crime at the Thailand-Myanmar border. However, they should also consider what the human cost of such policing might be for thousands of displaced and vulnerable Myanmar citizens.
Htet Hlaing Win
Some law enforcement groups under the parallel National Unity Government (NUG) have become a danger to civilians. Their actions threaten to undermine the NUG's legitimacy.
Kyaw Yin Hlaing|Kyi Sin|Jared Bissinger|Su Mon Thazin Aung|Moe Thuzar
Despite hopes for change, things may stay the same or worsen in Myanmar, as the junta’s fight against resistance groups and civilians continues into another year.
Surachanee Sriyai
In a virtual war alongside its physical one, Myanmar’s junta aims to cut off online access for its people and the resistance. The world can help by supporting Myanmar citizens in their attempts to stay connected.