This Week's Analysis This week we bring you articles on: The IPCC's Sixth Assessment Report on Climate Change, Outcomes of Secretary Blinken's India Trip, and a Special Feature on the Developments in Myanmar.
The Asia Pacific
High Prospects Out of Secretary Blinken’s Trip to New Delhi
- Veeresh Kanduri, MOFA Fellow, Taiwan Center for Security Studies
Dr. Chosein Yamahata is an expert on Burmese politics and society. He is Professor of Global and Area Studies at the Graduate School of Policy Studies, Aichi Gakuin University in Japan.
Dr. Yamahata is also the coordinator of the Academic Diplomacy Project in bridging interdisciplinary area studies. Reaching locals across different sectors through the soft power of academia.
"Whatever the decision may be, Myanmar’s ongoing crises due to a series of crimes against humanity by the junta, will not avert the coming collision of the junta and NUG to determine the future of Myanmar’s present and coming generations."
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