Myanmar: ASEAN’s Intractable Problem

At the recently concluded 48th ASEAN Summit the Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim as Chair, called for a more “aggressive and effective” approach to the civil war in Myanmar. While the country’s leaders have been barred from high-level meetings since the military coup in 2021, ASEAN’s roadmap for normalisation - the Five-Point Consensus - remains the bloc’s primary but largely ineffective framework for engaging with the military junta. With relations between both sides turning sour for more than five years, what can ASEAN and Myanmar realistically expect from one another moving forward? Image Credit: ShutterstockSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.