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  1. UN: India sells arms to junta while claiming concern over crisis in Myanmar Observers say such sales abet junta war crimes and suppliers should be held accountable. 2023.07.03
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  2. 2024-10-5 JakartaP : No to Asia’s NATO Even if he does stand the test of time, like his predecessor Fumio Kishida, Ishiba does not have much to offer in order to lure ASEAN leaders amid Japan’s declining economic power and the rising economic scale of ASEAN.
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  3. ASEAN’s consistent focus on development should not be swayed. The 44th and 45th ASEAN Summits and Related Summits are held in Vientiane, Laos, from Tuesday to Friday. As the host, Laos set the theme this year as "ASEAN: Enhancing Connectivity and Resilience." The theme of each annual summit often runs through the discussions and the speeches of national leaders during the series of meetings. Certainly, there are often individual countries that attempt to involve topics with obvious geopolitical implications. For example, in an editorial published last week, Indonesia's major media The Jakarta Post warned Japan's new Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba against trying to promote his idea of building an Asian NATO during the annual ASEAN summit. It argued that Ishiba's idea would be "considered very offensive" to ASEAN and only "exacerbate tensions in the region." Contrary to ASEAN's theme of focusing on development, this is apparently why the new Japanese leader was asked to exercise self-restraint at the summits. This also shows once again that ASEAN has its own staunch stance on issues related to regional development and will not be easily swayed by other countries.
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  4. Companies in India are supplying weapons to Myanmar’s junta while Prime Minister Narendra Modi expresses concern about the political crisis in Myanmar on the international stage, observers said Monday, highlighting the two-faced nature of the strategy. Indian arms manufacturer Bharat Electronics Limited, or BEL, transferred military equipment worth more than US$5.1 million to Myanmar’s army or known Myanmar arms brokers Alliance Engineering Consultancy and Mega Hill General Trading over a period of six months from November 2022 to April 2023, the rights group Justice for Myanmar reported in June. The military equipment included metallic sonar domes; transducers and gaskets for the domes to be used on frigates, warships or submarines; directing gear systems; technical documents; various items for radio transmission or radar equipment; and manpack radios for battlefield communication. Justice for Myanmar called the shipments “part of a pattern of Indian support for the Myanmar military and its domestic arms industry” and called on India’s allies to use their leverage to “pressure India to stop the supply of arms and dual use goods and technology” to the regime
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