ASEAN leaders pose alongside Myanmar junta bureaucrat U Aung Kyaw Moe (second from left) at the bloc’s summit in Kuala Lumpur on May 26. (AFP)

ASEAN is sliding into irrelevance on Myanmar

The regional bloc is confronting Myanmar with a mixture of immobilism and wishful thinking, while other actors intervene more effectively – to the regime’s benefit.

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