Myanmar
  • Feb 9, 2021 9:00 pm
  • 20:29 mins

A week ago, the military of Myanmar overthrew the elected government. It also imprisoned Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi and issued ominous warnings to the country’s citizens to stop protesting the coup. How did we get to this point? University of Michigan political scientist Dan Slater explains why. Slater is a scholar in the Asia Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. (AP Photo)