Myanmar’s junta wants to cancel the diplomatic test it can’t pass

“No longer necessary.” That was Min Aung Hlaing’s foreign ministry on August 8, on the office of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Chair’s Special Envoy on Myanmar. He had flown home from a state visit to Thailand 48 hours earlier, which invited the easy reading: a man cashing in his winnings too fast. [...] The post Myanmar’s junta wants to cancel the diplomatic test it can’t pass appeared first on Asia Times .