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  • Affairs
  • 20 Aug 2025
  • 7 min

Explainer 480: Myanmar and the perks of posing as a democracy

  • The Foreign Desk
  • Affairs
  • 7 min

Myanmar’s military, which has held power since 2021, has announced a general election for later this year. Has Myanmar suddenly become a democracy? Or is something else afoot? 

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