#JustReleased | Read our new Senior Study Group final report, 'Transnational Crime in Southeast Asia: A Growing Threat to Global Peace and Security,' here: usip.org/publications/2…

J. Daniel Sims Jason Tower US Dept of State INL Bridget Welsh
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Read our new Senior Study Group final report, 'Transnational Crime in Southeast Asia: A Growing Threat to Global Peace and Security,' here: usip.org/publications/2…

On Monday join us for a discussion that will illuminate how far-reaching criminal networks in Southeast Asia have been able to adapt to regional conditions and escape the constraints of law enforcement. RSVP: usip.org/events/transna…

I visit a huge scam/economic zone in Laos and talk to people scammed and the people who scammed them after being tricked into slavery in SE Asia...the world is crazy and big and scary sometimes. npr.org/2024/05/01/124…

.Jason Tower spoke with All Things Considered's Emily Feng 冯哲芸 about the human trafficking to Southeast Asia that fuels online scams around the globe: npr.org/2024/05/01/124… #Myanmar #Burma

1. Just two weeks after the KNLA took control of base 275, the military was back, sharing a picture of its soldiers raising their flag.

At the heart of this sudden turn of events lies Colonel Saw Chit Tu, the commander of the notorious BGF. My latest.

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Discussion with The Hill about Secretary Blinken’s visit to China and the Myanmar crisis.

In a new analysis, our Jason Tower and Priscilla A. Clapp look at #China ’s crackdown on #Myanmar ’s criminal groups. Read here: usip.org/publications/2…

With war raging in Myawaddy, and the Myanmar junta on the brink, Karen state’s forced labor fraud factories continue pig-butchering operations, some newer criminal compounds emerging as far as 61 miles from Shwekokko. Our latest on this crisis U.S. Institute of Peace: usip.org/publications/2…

Mining in Myanmar’s Wa region: following the announcement in Aug of 2023 of the suspension of mining operations, which impacted global tin markets, the UWSA announces the limited resumption of mining, with the exception of the large tin mines at Manxiang (Man Maw)

NEW: Exports of weapons from Singapore to #Myanmar ’s junta dropped by 83% in 2023, UN Special Rapporteur Tom Andrews told me. Sg’s crackdown raises costs for the SAC as they’re facing unprecedented battlefield disasters. w/ input from Dr. Sasa Zachary Abuza & Justice For Myanmar
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Despite the junta’s defeat in Myawaddy and the escalation in tensions on the Myanmar-Thailand border, one of the region’s most notorious forced labor scamming hubs / crime cities, Shwekokko Yatai City seems unimpacted as plans for a massive water festival party continue

With Myanmar’s military losing control of borders with China, Thailand, Bangladesh & India, China is pressing the 3 Brotherhood Alliance (3BHA) and military for a 5th round of talks in Kunming in late April. Here I look at implications of China’s increasingly aggressive response

Kayin State Border Guard Force announced its separation from the Myanmar military, and is trying to rehabilitate its rights-abusing reputation, but new financial pressures have only deepened its dependence on the cyber scam industry Frontier Myanmar

Photographs reveal MNDAA intention to become a federal level special zone? At the Tomb-sweeping festival on April 5, MNDAA memorials read “Myanmar Federal Special Region No 1” rather than Shan State SR1. Will the MNDAA aim to establish Kokang State as the UWSA push for Wa State?

Myanmar’s notorious forced criminal scamming hub KK Park a sensation in China’s Chongqing: local authorities dispel online rumors that an industrial park is “Chongqing’s own KK Park,” man behind the rumors was an unsuccessful job applicant, and has been “punished” by police