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David I Steinberg

David I Steinberg
David I Steinberg is distinguished professor of Asian studies, emeritus, at Georgetown University in the United States.
Chinese President Xi Jinping, center, delivers a speech at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on September 8. (AFP)
News Feed, Opinion

Myanmar, China and the citizenship question

Recent remarks from Chinese president Xi Jinping suggest we may be on the cusp of a third wave of state attempts to influence and pressure.
BY David I Steinberg

 

U Nu presents a cheque to President Eisenhower for the families of Americans who fell in Burma in the Second World War. (Wikimedia Commons)
Opinion

The US, China and the ‘tender gourd’

Public exchanges between the US and Chinese embassies in Yangon have echoes from the Cold War that test Myanmar’s neutralist stance.
BY David I Steinberg

 

Illustration by Jared Downing | Frontier
Opinion

The trouble with ‘tidy minds’

Despite new democratic freedoms, a tendency towards conformity in Myanmar politics and society is destined to reproduce autocracy.
BY David I Steinberg

 

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Opinion

Global human rights and local politics

In countries undergoing a transition to democracy, deeply engrained social and intellectual tendencies are often at odds with idealistic international political norms.
BY David I Steinberg

 

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Volume 6, Issue 18

  • January 27, 2021
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Myanmar enters 2021 with more friends than foes
The early delivery of vaccines is one of the many boons of the country’s geopolitics, but to really take advantage, Myanmar must bury the legacy of its isolationist past.
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Will the Kayin BGF go quietly?
The Kayin State Border Guard Force has come under intense pressure from the Tatmadaw over its extensive, controversial business interests and there’s concern the ultimatum could trigger fresh hostilities in one of the country’s most war-torn areas.
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