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DIPLOMATIC TALKS. China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi speaks with Australia’s Foreign Minister Penny Wong during the 14th East Asia Summit Foreign Ministers’ Meeting at the 57th Association of Southeast Asian Nations Foreign Ministers’ Meeting in Vientiane on July 27, 2024. AFPAustralia’s foreign minister on Saturday called on Myanmar’s junta to “take a different path” from its bloody crackdown on dissent, saying the situation in the war-torn country is “not sustainable.
“Myanmar is deeply concerning, we see it in the economy, instability, insecurity, deaths,” Wong told journalists at a press conference. A Southeast Asian diplomat told AFP on condition of anonymity earlier this week that the military’s readiness to re-engage diplomatically was a sign of its “weakened position.”
Myanmar’s generals have yet to make any meaningful counterattack following a previous offensive by ethnic armed groups in October that seized swaths of territory along the border with China.ASEAN has spearheaded diplomatic efforts to resolve the crisis but with little success.
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