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The move is part of a strategy aimed at normalizing the junta’s relations with the outside world – or at least with ASEAN.

Don Pramudwinai reportedly described the secret meeting as a breakthrough. It is more accurate to view it as a setback.

The country’s brutal coup regime is no candidate for political compromise.

The international community can be divided into three camps in dealing with Myanmar’s brutal coup regime. One consists of a shameless group that includes Russia, China and India that supports the junta and, in the case of Russia and China, supplies weapons to further their own narrow national interests. A second is a divided ASEAN that cobbled together and continues to promote the so-called “five-point consensus,” an incoherent initiative that was dead on arrival more than a year ago. The third is the West, which has imposed sanctions, offered humanitarian aid and taken a strong rhetoric...

Declassified documents reveal how in 1965 a dirty tricks arm of the Foreign Office incited massacres that left thousands dead