Junta chief Senior General Min Aung Hlaing and India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi shake hands during a bilateral meeting on the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit in the Chinese city of Tianjin on August 31. (AFP)

The junta positions itself in the new world order

The regime is taking advantage of an international order in decline to claim a legitimacy it doesn’t deserve – with authoritarian states in the Global South increasingly opening their doors to Senior General Min Aung Hlaing.

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