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- Title
MYANMAR SPIRALS DOWNWARD WHILE ASEAN DRIFTS.
- Authors
DALPINO, CATHARIN
- Abstract
ASEAN unity wobbled in the final months of 2021, largely over the worsening conflict in Myanmar and the group's inability to advance the five-point consensus plan it had forged in April. Vaccination rates for COVID-19 picked up, but governments that had hoped to return to pre-pandemic economic growth rates worried that the omicron variant would undo progress that had been made. Political challenges were no less daunting in several countries. The nomination process for May 2022 presidential elections in the Philippines showed that political dynasties are strengthening and may even merge. In Malaysia, the success of the United Malay Organization (UMNO) in state elections raised the prospect that the party will recover some of its former strength, although not its political monopoly. Anti-government demonstrations in Thailand became more perilous for protestors in November when the Constitutional Court ruled that advocating reform of the monarchy, one of the central planks of the protest movement, was tantamount to treason.
- Subjects
MYANMAR; ASEAN; SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant; PRESIDENTIAL elections; PUBLIC demonstrations; COVID-19 vaccines; ELECTIONS; ECONOMIC expansion; PROTEST movements; MONOPOLIES
- Publication
Comparative Connections: A Triannual E-Journal on East Asian Bilateral Relations, 2022, Vol 23, Issue 3, p51
- ISSN
1930-5370
- Publication type
Article