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Myanmar junta will lose further ground in near term

Tuesday, August 13, 2024

Significance

The resistance to the junta, including People’s Defence Forces aligned with the anti-junta National Unity Government (NUG) as well as ethnic armed organisations long pitted against the military, continues to make territorial gains.

Impacts

  • Myanmar’s neighbours will step up pressure on the junta to hold elections.
  • The junta’s military and economic dependence on China and Russia will deepen.
  • Regional drug cartels will step up trafficking through the Gulf of Thailand.

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