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Adam Simpson
Adam Simpson
SCMP Contributor
Adam Simpson is Senior Lecturer in International Studies at the University of South Australia. His research focuses on the politics of the environment, development and digital media in Southeast Asia, particularly Myanmar and Thailand.

Thailand’s politics is set to enter another volatile era with the election of Srettha Thavisin as prime minister, and the return and incarceration of former leader Thaksin Shinawatra.

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The military, which toppled Suu Kyi in a coup, has slightly reduced the 78-year-old’s long jail term – but such gestures are empty and far from enough to alter how the murderous regime is viewed.

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If a fraction of the support to Ukraine was provided to Myanmar’s resistance fighters, they would have the chance to build a thriving democratic state in the heart of Asia

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