Asia | Banyan
Myanmar’s generals have a dubious role model in Thailand
One’s stagnation is better than the other’s disintegration, but that is a low bar
SOON AFTER General Min Aung Hlaing mounted a coup against Myanmar’s elected government, a year ago this month, the army chief wrote to the prime minister of next-door Thailand for advice. How, he asked Prayuth Chan-ocha, to build a flourishing democracy?
This article appeared in the Asia section of the print edition under the headline “Irony-free zones”
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