This week in Myanmar: Min Aung Hlaing visits China for the first time since his 2021 coup, the Republican party wins elections in the United States of America, shaking up that country's foreign policy, and teachers continue to get shafted by the enfeebled Department of Education under the military regime's State Administration Council. 

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Timecodes:

1m12s :: Weekly news digest5m06s :: Changing U.S. policy under Trump elect9m37s :: Min Aung Hlaing in China15m46s :: Regime teachers getting shafted23m16s :: Correspondence updates

Our guests:

Hunter Marston, PhD Candidate at the Australian National University, with publications:

Values over Interests: Variations in US–Myanmar Policy since 1988The Pendulum of Non-Alignment: Charting Myanmar's Great Power Diplomacy (2011–2021)

Ya Nwe, Frontier Myanmar journalist, with reporting that includes: 

Unpaid and abandoned: Myanmar junta fails displaced civil servants (discussed today) Losing count: Chaotic census kicks off Down and out in the delta: Rakhine IDPs struggle in Ayeyarwady Anyar rising: Myanmar’s Dry Zone PDFs up the ante