{"id":72841,"date":"2025-07-11T21:33:20","date_gmt":"2025-07-11T12:33:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jul\/11\/myanmar-military-leader-min-aung-hlaing-praises-donald-trump"},"modified":"2025-07-11T21:33:20","modified_gmt":"2025-07-11T12:33:20","slug":"shunned-myanmar-leader-thrilled-at-us-contact-after-trump-tariff-letter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=72841","title":{"rendered":"Shunned Myanmar leader thrilled at US contact after Trump tariff letter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Min Aung Hlaing expresses \u2018sincere appreciation\u2019 for letter from US president threatening 40% tariff<\/p>\n<p>Myanmar\u2019s military leader has praised Donald Trump and asked him to lift sanctions, as the junta sought to capitalise on a tariff letter from the US president believed to be Washington\u2019s first public recognition of its rule.<\/p>\n<p>Min Aung Hlaing, who has been in power since a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/sep\/19\/myanmar-coup-2021-explained-in-30-seconds\">2021 coup<\/a>, expressed his \u201csincere appreciation\u201d for Trump\u2019s letter, which threatened a tariff of 40% on its goods, and commended the US president for his \u201cstrong leadership\u201d and for guiding the US \u201ctoward national prosperity with the spirit of a true patriot\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jul\/11\/myanmar-military-leader-min-aung-hlaing-praises-donald-trump\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Min Aung Hlaing expresses \u2018sincere appreciation\u2019 for letter from US president threatening 40% tariffMyanmar\u2019s military leader has praised Donald Trump and asked him to lift sanctions, as the junta sought to capitalise on a tariff letter from the US pre&#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":[415,82,61,3280,3279,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-donald-trump","category-myanmar","category-south-and-central-asia","category-tariffs","category-trump-tariffs","category-us-news","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72841","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=72841"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72841\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72842,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72841\/revisions\/72842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}