Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong once commented that the region lives “at the intersection of the interests of various powers and must avoid being caught in the middle or forced into invidious choices.”
As of early April, only weeks after the government was granted extraordinary emergency powers, more Filipinos had been arrested than had been tested for Covid-19.
The results of the ASEAN summit “do not reflect the views and voices of the Myanmar people and will not solve the political crisis in Myanmar.”
It is in the flags hanging from apartment windows and the stripes of red and white on crosswalks and doorways that this revolution lives on.
