Min Aung Hlaing

But in the last couple of years, it has seemed like the Chinese have swung around to more fulsome support for the junta.

Min Aung Hlaing, the leader of the military coup, and he is officially Myanmar's president.

But but very much a military dictator.

He was just in Beijing for a state visit.

It's going to be a grinding stalemate.

One question is how much international acceptance the junta manages to get.

So Min Aung Hlaing, the now president, has been on kind of an international tour.

You know, he's been in Bangkok, he's been in Delhi, he's been in Beijing, trying to kind of ratify his status as the big boss.

Others, however, continue to have very strong anger over the second part, and yet others are more complacent and see these things as an inevitable process of Malaysia's compromise politics.

The questions of compromise and, should we say, moral haze that exists over Southeast Asia has come to fore also when Anwar Ibrahim has now joined the other ASEAN countries in inviting the Crimes Against Humanity junta general, now selected president of Myanmar, Min Aung Hlaing, to come for a meeting.

The auspices now is to discuss the deportation of Rohingya from Malaysia and repatriation.

We will be discussing this issue of repatriation later on in the straight talk.

The parliament that is now elected for the first time is elected by the people.

It's not a perfect election, but it's very different than being appointed.

So far, the parliament has been appointed by various presidents, by Duterte and by Marcos.

In these poles we have the shades of the old but we also have these new elements and that created basically this very interesting melange almost of feelings and also sentiments on the ground as well.

There's a real lack of faith, I would say, in the international community at this moment among Myanmar civil society, because they have not seen any real... action to deal with the fact that the military continues to target the civilian population and wage this horrible war against the people.

And in fact, they're quite frustrated with the diplomatic successes that Min Aung Hlaing has been having recently with his travels and that people are giving him legitimacy when he has so much blood on his hands going back for a decade or more.

And that's really, I think, deeply frustrating that the communities that are being targeted and the people who are trying to help those communities are being increasingly ignored while the perpetrators of the violence and the perpetrators of human rights violations are being given their role, have their red carpet rolled out for them.

How do you intend to respond to the loss of trust?

This is a really important issue.

One of the things that Thailand has claimed about their engagement strategy is that it will help improve humanitarian access by engaging and legitimizing the regime.

I think that they are going to be disappointed if they expect Min Aung Hlaing and his regime to be cooperative and helpful in resolving humanitarian crises.

ASEAN has the ASEAN Humanitarian Action Center at the AHA Center that could do, I think, more creative work.