Asia Program in the News - May 2021

Recent media appearances from the staff and fellows of the Asia Program.

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	Myanmar anti-coup activists threatened but not silenced, as military crackdown continues Lucas Myers quoted by South China Morning Post(May 03, 2021)

	Biden Hints at More Flexible North Korea Approach Jean Lee quoted by VOA (May 03, 2021)

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Lucas Myers

Senior Associate for Southeast Asia, Indo-Pacific Program

Michael Kugelman

Director, South Asia Institute

Afghanistan today is a messy, mixed picture. After almost four decades of war, there is no more active conflict. But the country is fully controlled by a Taliban regime just as brutal as it was in the 1990s, and it is suffering through searing levels of humanitarian and economic stress. Relative peace may have arrived, but at great cost.

Shihoko Goto

Director, Indo-Pacific Program

Jean H. Lee

Former Public Policy Fellow

North Korea’s nuclear weapons are such a source of strength and pride for the people, and such a key strategic tool for Kim, that it’s hard to see him giving them up entirely.