When Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) leaders met earlier this month in Vientiane, Laos, the dramatically deteriorating situation in Myanmar was once again high on the bloc’s agenda. The Chair’s Statement was a discomforting reminder of one of ASEAN’s greatest-ever diplomatic failures: the Five Point Consensus (5PC) on Myanmar. Since it was completed in […]
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