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April 2, 2018

China
“China Steps Out: Beijing’s Major Power Engagement with the Developing World”: A Review

Hunter Marston is a senior research assistant at the Brookings Institution, where he works in the Center for East Asia Policy Studies and for The India Project. You can follow him on Twitter @hmarsto…

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Blog Post by Guest Blogger for Asia Unbound Asia Unbound

January 20, 2015

Human Rights
The U.S.-Burma Human Rights Dialogue: Frank Criticism but No Action

Last week, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor Tom Malinowski, U.S. Ambassador to Myanmar Derek Mitchell, and a group of other U.S. officials from State, Defense,…

Sinnuyar Baekon, 25, sits in front of her hut at a refugee camp outside Sittwe, the capital city of the Rakhine state June 9, 2014. Baekon is among many Rohingya Muslims living in squalid camps in Myanmar after being displaced by religious unrest. Baekon is from Rakhine state, where her family home was burned down in religious riots that broke out in June 2012. Baekon ended up in a refugee camp, where she is still living now. Her husband left her before she gave birth to twins, and she is struggling to fee
Blog Post by Joshua Kurlantzick Asia Unbound

May 13, 2016

Myanmar
Guest Post: Has Myanmar Fully Transitioned to a Democracy?

Helia Ighani is the assistant director of the Council on Foreign Relations’ Center for Preventive Action. Aung San Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy (NLD) won a majority of the votes after a…

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Blog Post by Guest Blogger for Micah Zenko Politics, Power, and Preventive Action

September 23, 2005

China
Did anything really change with the RMB today?

Widening the trading band around the dollar would be a big deal. Widening the trading bands around other currencies does not strike me as a big deal.  It - in a sense - just makes it easier to sti…

Blog Post by Brad W. Setser Follow the Money

March 5, 2012

Sub-Saharan Africa
South Africa’s "Bad Boy" Expelled from Ruling Party

It is no surprise that the African National Congress (ANC) expelled from the party Julius Malema, the radical former head of the ANC Youth League. Once an ally of incumbent president Jacob Zuma, and …

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Blog Post by John Campbell Africa in Transition