ASEAN should adopt a piecemeal approach in engaging dialogue partners to collaborate on matters pertaining to the 5-point consensus. However, Hun Sen’s cowboy diplomacy and Thailand’s informal talks with the Burmese junta failed to produce any diplomatic breakthroughs. To mitigate this, ASEAN plans to engage relevant parties to give the implementation of the 5-point consensus a harder push. Moreover, since the February coup, both Beijing and Moscow continue to sell deadly arms and bolster diplomatic support for the Burmese junta. A united front will exert a harder push on the Burmese junta towards resolving Myanmar’s chaos.
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