{"id":63211,"date":"2024-04-10T09:41:09","date_gmt":"2024-04-10T00:41:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/apr\/10\/myanmar-rebels-thailand-border-surrender-power-junta"},"modified":"2024-04-10T09:41:09","modified_gmt":"2024-04-10T00:41:09","slug":"myanmar-is-the-juntas-grip-on-power-weakening-and-what-next-for-its-leadership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=63211","title":{"rendered":"Myanmar: is the junta\u2019s grip on power weakening and what next for its leadership?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After a string of high-profile and embarrassing battlefield losses, questions have been raised about how long military chief Min Aung Hlaing can survive<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/apr\/09\/myanmar-military-rebels-myawaddy-karen-state-surrender-thailand\">Blow for Myanmar\u2019s military as rebels say hundreds have surrendered at key border town<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Myanmar\u2019s military junta is on the brink of losing control of a major trading town, Myawaddy, on its eastern border with Thailand, after soldiers defending the position <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/apr\/09\/myanmar-military-rebels-myawaddy-karen-state-surrender-thailand\">surrendered in recent days<\/a>, according to opposition groups.<\/p>\n<p>This is the latest in a series of defeats for the junta, which has also lost crucial territory along its border with China and India, as well as areas of Rakhine state, in the west of the country.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/apr\/10\/myanmar-rebels-thailand-border-surrender-power-junta\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a string of high-profile and embarrassing battlefield losses, questions have been raised about how long military chief Min Aung Hlaing can surviveBlow for Myanmar\u2019s military as rebels say hundreds have surrendered at key border townMyanmar\u2019s mili&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":860,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,50,82,61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-myanmar","category-south-and-central-asia"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/860"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63211"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63211\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63212,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63211\/revisions\/63212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}