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Myanmar and South China Sea crises test ASEAN's mettle
Asia-Pacific

Myanmar and South China Sea crises test ASEAN's mettle

The 10-member southeast Asian union has little power to confront the junta or Beijing’s increasingly aggressive military posture.

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Asia-Pacific

A bloody stalemate one year after Mynamar coup tests our restraint

The international community may feel impotent, but there is a lot it can do to help — and Washington doesn't have to lead to get it done.

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Asia-Pacific

Resisting calls for using force to save the people of Myanmar

The once vaunted 'responsibility to protect' doctrine faded away after the Libyan intervention. There's a reason for that.

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Washington Politics

In major address Biden says 'America is back.' But what does that mean?

Aside from big news on Yemen, this turned out to be more of a pep talk, making what sounded like a vigorous case for the pre-Trump status quo.

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Europe

What Putin nemesis Alexei Navalny is, and what he is not

Americans tend to lionize — and Westernize — political dissidents, unaware that they may not be who we think they are.