Insight Email Vol-2 No. 5
This ISP Insight Email Vol.2. No.5 (English version) is published on August 22, 2024 as a translation of the original Burmese version published on August 12, 2024.
EDITOR’S NOTE
Under the title of “Naypyitawlogy,” ISP-Myanmar studies the military, and political considerations of the generals in Naypyitaw. The study also covers its system, governance, and institutional formations, ideologies and relations, geopolitics, economy, and public support.
The nation and its people are facing deteriorating socioeconomic conditions in every measures within over three years since the coup. Conflict is escalating nationwide, and the Myanmar Armed Forces (MAF) is suffering a historic blow by failing an entire Regional Military Command (RMC). Despite these circumstances, the junta leader, Snr. Gen. Min Aung Hlaing appears to evade responsibility and shift the blame onto others. This week, Naypyitawlogy-5 sheds light on the junta leader’s personalized nature of regime, his politics of blame-game, and how these factors may contribute to his downfall.
Additionally, this week’s Insight Email’s “Trends to Watch” section shed light on border trade conditions amidst wartime. All routes in northern Shan State that mainly trade with China have completely been seized by Ethnic Armed Organizations (EAOs) following Operation 1027. Although the State Administration Council (SAC) tries to re-route a new one in the eastern Shan State, this plan has yet to materialize. The “What ISP is reading” section discusses the political transition or people’s power victory in the neighboring country, Bangladesh. It also introduces the 20th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China’s (CCP) third plenary session and the China’s path forward.
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