Will Chalk
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37 recordings
3 series
first heard Nov 2025
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And the Thais...
I think essentially told him, we need to know Aung San Suu Kyi's alive.
We can't afford to bring you here, which is very controversial, and then find out she's not alive.
It's one of the cards the Myanmar military has decided to play to its own advantage.
I think Aung San Suu Kyi may well understand that, that she's part of a diplomatic game.
She's still so high profile and still so popular, particularly in areas that oppose the military government, that her fate, and ultimately one would assume her release, are inevitably going to be part of
of any process of either trying to settle the civil war, although the military is not making any concessions on that yet, or simply recognising that the military government is there to stay and must be dealt with.
Yeah, but the fact this visit is going ahead would suggest then, wouldn't it, that this tactic is working?
Yes, and I think, you know, some other Southeast Asian countries have been much more reluctant than Thailand to give Myanmar this kind of recognition, you know, a big official visit or a red carpet welcome.
But
China, the most important country in the region, which also has a long border with Myanmar, has fully backed the military government and is the main reason why it's recovered and it's got much better militarily at fighting the opposition.
And I think Thailand's view is they also have a long shared border, lots of issues that need to be resolved, lots of problems being caused by the war.
Thailand is one of the Southeast Asian countries saying, well, actually...
Whatever our distaste for the bloodshed of these generals and the killing they've done, we have to re-engage with them.
I think inevitably other Southeast Asian countries, although they want more concessions from Myanmar, even if they don't get them, will eventually have to re-engage.
This Myanmar military government now is there to stay.
That's Jonathan Head.
In the last two months, dozens of people have been killed in clashes between security officials and protesters across Pakistani-administered Kashmir, who say they're simply asking for basic rights such as affordable food, electricity and healthcare.
The protesters are from a group called the Joint Awami Action Committee, or JAAC, which was banned by the authorities in June and its members labelled foreign-funded terrorists.
They deny that accusation.
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