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

Frontier Myanmar has a new podcast! Tune in for this first episode of What's Happening in Myanmar, the weekly show keeping you on top of the country's complex developments. In this episode, our guests discuss the pressure being brought to bear on Operation 10/27 and the MNDAA's control of Lashio, as well as the Arakan Army's encirclement of the Western RMC in Ann Township, the UN Special Envoy's trip to Nay Pyi Taw, and more. With guests Jason Tower, Country Director of the Burma program at the United States Institute for Peace; Ko Ye Mon, senior reporter with Frontier; and Ben Dunant, Editor-in-Chief at Frontier. Email the show with your questions and comments at [email protected] and please like, subscribe, and review us on your favourite podcast platforms.