What Myanmar coup means for Biden’s pro-democracy vision

Posted on AllSides February 2nd, 2021
From The Center
Myanmar coup, democracy, Joe Biden

Promoting democracy and exercising global leadership are core, value-laden elements of President Biden’s foreign policy vision. Both are being challenged by the military coup in Myanmar.

The weekend military coup that deposed Myanmar’s elected government and landed democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi under arrest poses an early test for President Joe Biden’s vow to buttress the world’s democracies against a rising authoritarian tide.

The United States played a critical role in the Southeast Asian nation’s emergence a decade ago from a half-century of military rule and international isolation.

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