Myanmar

China wants an unpopular billion-dollar project restarted, but it has walked a fine line around the coup.

From Afghanistan to China, the new administration seems likely to hold on to some ideas from the previous one.

Thant Myint-U on the future of the protests, what Beijing wants, and what Washington can do to help.

Many monks in Myanmar are supporting the military coup.

With U.S. credibility so low, promoting democracy is harder than ever—so Washington should get its own house in order first.

Targeted, sharp action to reverse the coup is urgently needed.

Led by student activists, the new civil-disobedience movement draws on the experience of older generations—but its methods and demands are a radical break with the past.

Linda Thomas-Greenfield’s journey from the Jim Crow South, why global celebrities are taking on Modi, and what the United States shouldn’t do about Myanmar’s coup.

A coup in Myanmar and Russia’s sentencing of Alexei Navalny raise questions about whether promoting U.S. values could weaken Washington’s hand when it comes to great-power competition.

The collapse of a fledgling democracy is a cautionary tale for Washington’s foreign-policy establishment.

Facing its first major crisis, the Biden administration must confront a failure of U.S. diplomacy orchestrated by some of its own players nearly a decade ago.

This assault on democracy cannot be allowed to stand, whatever Aung San Suu Kyi’s failings.

Washington’s response should be swift if Biden expects the world to take his commitment seriously.

The Biden administration needs clarity from China as the new U.S. president acts on his first major crisis.

State leader Min Aung Hlaing, who was due to retire as commander in chief when he turns 65 in July, could now extend his hold on power.

With Washington and much of the world preoccupied, the generals have calculated they can get away with it.