The creation of a Chinland Council in northwestern Myanmar is helping to bring together a divided ethnic minority in a move that could have implications for the resistance against the military junta. While the new council faces barriers to progress and …
Published January 12, 2024 / Held February 2, 2024
“American Portrait Project” is a Taiwan-based survey that investigates the Taiwanese public’s perception of the United States and China and evaluates the development of U.S.-Taiwan-China Relations in order to understand the impact of the United States’ …
Published November 8, 2023 / Held November 20, 2023
Join us for a discussion on how Myanmar’s military government is handling rising sanctions with few friends. Since the February 2021, the junta has relied on political, military, and diplomatic support of Beijing and Moscow, despite ongoing internation …
Published November 6, 2023 / Held November 14, 2023
On October 27, 2023, the Three Brotherhood Alliance launched Operation 1027 to retake Kokang and elsewhere, signifying the largest movement in northern Myanmar since the February 2021 coup. The offensive action in Shan State has cap …
Published November 3, 2023 / Held November 8, 2023
Since Tsai Ing-wen took office in 2016, Taiwan has lost five diplomatic allies in the Americas, the most recent of which being Honduras in March 2023. As Beijing’s global and regional effort to isolate Taipei in the international community is likely to …
Published October 20, 2023 / Held November 16, 2023
The Ministry of Planning, Finance, and Investment of Myanmar’s National Unity Government is charged both with raising revenue for the Spring Revolution as well as denying revenue to Myanmar’s military government. In light of an economic downturn and ex …
With the military junta’s banning of the National League for Democracy (NLD), the arrest of its key leaders, and violent suppression of political opposition and the resistance movement, one of the central questions about Myanmar’s future lies in where …
Published August 23, 2023 / Held September 20, 2023
In the wake of the global chip shortage arising from the COVID-19 pandemic, countries are painfully aware of the supply chain (in)security and rush for semiconductor self-sufficiency. Taiwan sits at the epicenter of this global chip crisis, and it is w …
Join us for a discussion on China’s approach to engaging Myanmar in the third year since the military coup. While the international community ponders how to approach the Myanmar crisis, China appears to be revamping its engagement with the Burmese mili …
As the international community ponders how to approach the Myanmar crisis, China has revamped its engagement in hopes of strengthening China-Myanmar relations
The Burmese military has always considered university students a threat to their rule, with these students civically engaged during all three military coups – 1962, 1988, and 2021. In Burma, students have been the frontliners against authoritarianism, …
As the resistance to the military junta in Myanmar escalates, the shadow National Unity Government (NUG) is using creative and tech savvy methods to gather resources. Join us for a conversation between insurgency expert Zachary Abuza and co-director of …
In a decade, the Arakan Army has become one of the most powerful ethnic armed groups in Myanmar and has expanded its administrative control in Rakhine State.
February 1 marked the second anniversary of the 2021 military coup in Myanmar. As the junta continues to employ violent assaults against the population, the role of ethnic armed organizations remains crucial in advancing the resistance movement. In Rak …
As violence continues to escalate in Myanmar, resistance forces should facilitate greater military cooperation to leverage their strength against the military junta.
As Myanmar approaches the second anniversary of the 2021 military coup, resistance forces remain divided by ethnic and political differences. Despite some on-the-ground success in military cooperation, alliance politics in the resistance movement are s …
Taipei expects more security assistance from Washington. However, neither pure balancing nor pure band-wagoning against Beijing would benefit Taiwan’s current security situation.
A working group with experts from Japan, Taiwan, and the United States discussed maritime safety issues and the possibility for closer maritime safety cooperation