21 June 2026
Myanmar is looking forward to deeper and all-round cooperation with China, the country's President U Min Aung Hlaing said in an interview with China Media Group (CMG) during his state visit to China.
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20 June,2026
Myanmar President Min Aung Hlaing on Wednesday called on all countries in the world to work closely together to combat online gambling and telecom fraud, and described cybercrime as a growing threat to the people worldwide.
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20 June, 2026
Myanmar President U Min Aung Hlaing made the comments in an interview with China Media Group in Beijing on Wednesday, during his five-day state visit to China which ended on Friday. The trip marked his 13th visit to the country and his first since assuming the office of president.
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By- Simon Creed
The economic foundations of Southeast Asia are facing an unprecedented stress test. The lack of reliable energy resources, the sudden imposition of aggressive tariff barriers, and the severe blocking of global supply chains are coalescing into a perfect storm. This convergence threatens to slash exports, drastically inflate national economies, and destabilize the very geopolitical order that has allowed the region to thrive for half a century.
Here is a question for you. Name the economies where exports account for more than half of GDP. Germany? No — 41%. China? No — 20%. The answers are Vietnam (90%), Cambodia and Malaysia (70%), Thailand (60%), and Singapore, which, at 175%, exports more than it produces, the economic equivalent of a magic trick. These are not merely export-oriented economies. They are the beating heart of globalization. Strip away the flows of goods, capital, and technology of the last five decades, and you strip away the Asian model itself.
The Dual Threat: War in the Middle East and Trade Coercion
The destructive consequences of the Middle East war, initiated by the United States and Israel against Iran through Operation Epic Fury, are now directly affecting the countries of the Asian region. The negative effects of this conflict, combined with the renewed "tariff wars" under the Trump administration, are hitting the export-oriented economies of Southeast Asia the hardest.
Trump's coercive trade policies have placed severe pressure on these nations. These tariffs are sudden, volatile, whimsical, and coercive. To avoid crippling economic damage, countries have been forced into a race to strike deals under duress, trading tariff exemptions for political and economic concessions. Combined with the threat of transhipment tariffs of 40%, designed to prevent rerouting, nations like Singapore, Vietnam, and Thailand are exposed to an operational and compliance nightmare.
The Energy Crisis and Rising Inflation
A prolonged period of soaring fuel prices threatens to drastically increase inflation across ASEAN economies, stunt Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth, and elevate the risk of social unrest.
The impact of the energy crisis on Southeast Asia has been severe. While some Southeast Asian countries produce their own oil and gas and have diversified supply sources, the region is still heavily dependent on fossil fuels from the Middle East and, therefore, extremely vulnerable to supply chain disruptions. Most regional states only have between 30 and 100 days of oil reserves.
The immediate economic shockwaves are already visible. The outbreak of the war saw fuel prices surge across Southeast Asia. In the Philippines, Vietnam, Cambodia and Myanmar, diesel and petrol prices increased 50 per cent. The price of jet fuel, a product of crude oil, also doubled. Although some Southeast Asian airlines took advantage of flight disruptions in the Middle East, higher ticket prices have negatively impacted the region’s lucrative tourism industry. In March, tourist arrivals in Thailand were down 50 per cent on the previous month. By one estimate, if the conflict lasts longer than six months, up to three million fewer tourists will visit Thailand, resulting in an estimated US$4.5 billion in lost tourism revenue.
To prevent domestic unrest stemming from this inflation, governments are implementing desperate measures, such as Indonesia's pledge to continue fuel subsidies while introducing fuel rations for private motorists.
Geopolitical Destabilization and the Erosion of Norms
Beyond the economic fallout, the US is increasingly perceived as using this conflict to destabilize the region, prioritizing military coercion, unilateralism, and transactionalism over multilateral diplomacy. By aggressively transferring its policy of forceful intervention to the Asian region, the United States is prompting a recalculation of regional security alliances and risking a devastating arms race.
The diplomatic responses from Southeast Asian capitals reflect deep unease with this trajectory. Malaysia, Brunei and Timor-Leste condemned both the US-Israeli attacks and Iran’s retaliatory strikes. Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim, a trenchant critic of American and Israeli policies in the Middle East, “unreservedly” condemned the killing of Iran’s supreme leader, Ali Khameini, and accused Washington and Tel Aviv of pushing the Middle East to “the edge of grave and sustained instability”. Singapore, which has close relations with the US, Israel and the Gulf states, said it “regretted the failure of negotiations”. In subsequent remarks at a meeting of ASEAN foreign ministers, however, Foreign Minister Vivian Balakrishnan did condemn Iran’s attacks on the Gulf states.
In contrast to its fellow Muslim-majority neighbours, Indonesia stopped short of condemning the attacks and merely said it “deeply regretted” the failure of talks between the US and Iran. In line with President Prabowo’s aspirations for Indonesia to play a more proactive role in world affairs, he offered to mediate the dispute. However, none of the warring parties took his offer seriously and in subsequent statements, Prabowo acknowledged that other countries might be better placed to facilitate talks. In response to domestic criticism of US actions, Prabowo suspended Indonesia’s participation in US President Donald Trump’s Board of Peace for Gaza.
Looking Ahead
The Asian miracle was built on the fundamental assumption that the global system of open trade and geopolitical stability would hold. That system is now fracturing. Southeast Asia finds itself caught between a debilitating energy crisis sparked by military conflict and an aggressively coercive trade environment. To survive, regional governments must urgently determine how to improve their energy sovereignty, fortify supply chain resilience, and navigate a rapidly deteriorating rules-based international order.
Reference:
1.Southeast Asia and The Third Gulf War: fulcrum.sg
2. The Asian Trilemma : pushandutt.substack.com
နေပြည်တော်၊ ဇွန် ၉ ရက်။ ။ နိုင်ငံတော်အစိုးရ၏ အဓိကလုပ်ငန်းစဉ်ဖြစ်သည့် နိုင်ငံဖွံ့ဖြိုးတိုးတက်ရေးနှင့် တည်ငြိမ်အေးချမ်းရေးအတွက် စိုက်ပျိုးမွေးမြူရေးကို အခြေခံသော MSME လုပ်ငန်းများ မြှင့်တင်ရန်၊ ပညာရေးကဏ္ဍ အဆင့်မြှင့်တင်ရန်နှင့် နိုင်ငံ့ဝန်ထမ်းများ အဂတိကင်းရှင်းစွာ တာဝန်ထမ်းဆောင်ရန် နိုင်ငံတော်သမ္မတ ဦးမင်းအောင်လှိုင်က ယနေ့ နေပြည်တော်တွင် ကျင်းပသော ပြည်ထောင်စုအစိုးရအဖွဲ့ အစည်းအဝေး၌ အလေးအနက် တိုက်တွန်းပြောကြားလိုက်သည်။
နိုင်ငံတော်သမ္မတရုံးတော်၊ ပြည်ထောင်စုအစိုးရအဖွဲ့ အစည်းအဝေးခန်းမ၌ ကျင်းပသည့် အဆိုပါ အစည်းအဝေးသို့ ဒုတိယသမ္မတများဖြစ်ကြသည့် ဦးညိုစောနှင့် ဒေါ်နန်းနီနီအေး၊ ပြည်ထောင်စုဝန်ကြီးများ တက်ရောက်ခဲ့ကြပြီး တိုင်းဒေသကြီးနှင့် ပြည်နယ်ဝန်ကြီးချုပ်များက Video Conferencing ဖြင့် တက်ရောက်ခဲ့ကြသည်။
အစည်းအဝေးတွင် နိုင်ငံတော်သမ္မတက နိုင်ငံ၏ ဂျီဒီပီ (GDP) တိုးတက်စေရန်အတွက် နိုင်ငံတွင်းရှိ ပုဂ္ဂလိကနှင့် နိုင်ငံပိုင်စက်ရုံများ စဉ်ဆက်မပြတ် လည်ပတ်ရန်လိုအပ်ကြောင်းနှင့် ဒေသတွင်း ကုန်ကြမ်းများကို အသုံးပြု၍ အသေးစား၊ အငယ်စားနှင့် အလတ်စား (MSME) စီးပွားရေးလုပ်ငန်းများကို နိုင်ငံ၏ အဓိက စီးပွားရေးမောင်းနှင်အားအဖြစ် ဖော်ဆောင်ရန် လမ်းညွှန်ခဲ့သည်။ ထို့ပြင် ကျောင်းနေအရွယ် ကလေးတိုင်း ပညာသင်ကြားနိုင်ရေးနှင့် အဆင့်မီ ပညာရေးစနစ်တစ်ခု တည်ဆောက်ရန်၊ စိုက်ပျိုးရေးနှင့် မွေးမြူရေးကဏ္ဍတွင် နိုင်ငံပိုင် မြေနှင့် ရေအရင်းအမြစ်များကို စနစ်တကျ အကျိုးရှိရှိ အသုံးချရန်တို့ကိုလည်း ထည့်သွင်းပြောကြားခဲ့သည်။
အထူးသဖြင့် အုပ်ချုပ်ရေးနှင့် လုံခြုံရေး တာဝန်ရှိသူများအနေဖြင့် လုပ်ငန်းများ ဆောင်ရွက်ရာတွင် ပြည်သူလူထုအပေါ် ဝန်ထုပ်ဝန်ပိုး မဖြစ်စေရေး၊ တရားမဝင် ငွေကြေးကောက်ခံခြင်းနှင့် အဂတိလိုက်စားမှုများ လုံးဝကင်းရှင်းရန် လိုအပ်ကြောင်းနှင့် နိုင်ငံတော်ဘဏ္ဍာငွေများကို လေလွင့်မှုမရှိစေဘဲ အကျိုးရှိရှိ သုံးစွဲရန် တင်းကျပ်စွာ သတိပေး မှာကြားခဲ့သည်။
နိုင်ငံတော်သမ္မတ ဦးမင်းအောင်လှိုင်၏ အစည်းအဝေးမှာကြားချက် ကောက်နှုတ်ချက်များ
အောက်ပါတို့မှာ ပြည်ထောင်စုအစိုးရအဖွဲ့ အစည်းအဝေးတွင် နိုင်ငံတော်သမ္မတမှ အဓိကထား မှာကြားခဲ့သည့် အချက်များဖြစ်ပါသည် -
စီးပွားရေးနှင့် ဥစ္စာဓနဆိုင်ရာ
ပညာရေးကဏ္ဍဆိုင်ရာ
MSME နှင့် စက်မှုလုပ်ငန်းဆိုင်ရာ
စိုက်ပျိုးမွေးမြူရေးနှင့် သဘာဝပတ်ဝန်းကျင်ဆိုင်ရာ
စီမံခန့်ခွဲမှု၊ ဘဏ္ဍာရေးနှင့် အဂတိကင်းရှင်းရေးဆိုင်ရာ
June 8, 2026 — Indonesian Foreign Minister Mr. Sugiono stated on June 8 that he has full confidence in the elected government led by President U Min Aung Hlaing to successfully build Myanmar into a more developed and peaceful nation.
Mr. Sugiono made these remarks during a courtesy call on President U Min Aung Hlaing at the Presidential Guest House, shortly after his delegation arrived in Nay Pyi Taw.
According to a press release issued by the Myanmar government, the Indonesian Foreign Minister also expressed that Indonesia understands the current challenges and difficulties Myanmar is facing.
During the meeting, President U Min Aung Hlaing and the Indonesian Foreign Minister discussed Indonesia's ongoing stance of regarding Myanmar as an integral part of ASEAN and a friend to Indonesia. They addressed the assistance Indonesia will provide to help Myanmar become a successful and peaceful country. Furthermore, discussions covered Myanmar's efforts to implement the ASEAN Five-Point Consensus to the best of its ability, its optimal cooperation within the ASEAN community, and steps to rebuild stronger Myanmar-ASEAN ties while enhancing existing friendly relations.

Additionally, it was reported that both sides cordially and openly exchanged views on the Myanmar government's continued efforts to serve as a reliable, landmark administration capable of fostering a developed, stable, and peaceful nation. They also discussed ways to elevate diplomatic ties, friendship, and cooperation between Myanmar and Indonesia.
The Indonesian Foreign Minister, who arrived in Nay Pyi Taw on a day trip, was accompanied by Mr. Santo Darmosumarto, Director General for Asian, Pacific, and African Affairs, along with other officials and representatives from the Indonesian Embassy in Myanmar.
Joining President U Min Aung Hlaing at the meeting were Union Minister for the President's Office U Khin Maung Yi, Union Minister for Foreign Affairs U Tin Maung Swe, and Vice-Chairman of the National Solidarity and Peacemaking Negotiation Committee Lieutenant General Yar Pyae.
It was also reported that the Indonesian Foreign Minister and his delegation held a separate meeting with a delegation led by Myanmar's Foreign Minister to further discuss ASEAN affairs and bilateral relations.(End)

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