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By detaining Aung San Suu Kyi and democratically elected officials, the Myanmar military has wiped away ten years and two successful elections of democratic progress. Why did the military decide to seize power now? Does the coup d’état present China with a golden opportunity to reassert its influence in Yangon at the expense of Japan’s carefully cultivated connections to Myanmar’s civilian and military leaders?

EU and India could partner in delivering COVID vaccines at the global scale DISCLAIMER: All opinions in this column reflect the views of the author(s), not of EURACTIV Media network. 11-02-2021 Afghan health workers unload the first shipment boxes of Covid-19 coronavirus vaccine donated by the Indian government, at the Kabul airport on 7 February 2021. Afghanistan received 500,000 doses of AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine from India on 7 February, the first to arrive in the country. [Hedayatullah Amid/EPA/EFE]

CPEC forges ahead in 2020 By Zamir Ahmed Awan (People's Daily Online)    17:14, December 31, 2020 While Western media is disseminating negative propaganda against China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), both countries are satisfied with the progress and committed to turn this mega project into a role model for the rest of the world to follow. The Second Meeting of the Joint Working Group on International Cooperation and Coordination (JWG-ICC), under the CPEC, was held on December 25, 2020 in Urumqi, capital of northwest China’s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. Photo taken on Jan. ...