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Five years ago, Washington imposed sanctions on Myanmar’s military leadership and downgraded diplomatic ties following a 2021 coup that ousted an elected government. This year, however, senior Trump administration officials have travelled to Tokyo and Myanmar’s capital, Naypyidaw, for talks with coup leader-turned-president Min Aung Hlaing. The goals of the diplomacy include countering China’s influence in the region and potentially gaining access to Myanmar’s “bountiful rare earth resources”, according to a US State Department document. But the outreach has raised concerns among human rights advocates that Washington’s pursuit of strategic interests could help rehabilitate a military leadership accused of widespread atrocities.

why uphold an international rules based law and order when you could get in bed with fascists and genocidaires instead