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Official Says Submarine Crew Died Preventing "Catastrophe Of Global Proportions." • Duterte Defiant As UN Considers Investigation Of Violence In The Philippines. • "Militant Buddhism" Rising In Response To Conditions In Burma And Sri Lanka. • US Agency For Global Media Facing New Scandals. THE BIG PICTURE

Lanka. The New York Times (7/8, Beech, 18.61M) reports on "the rise of militant Buddhism" in the wake of "ethnic cleansing" of Buddhist Rohingya in Burma and ongoing violence in Sri Lanka. The Times says "some Buddhists, especially those who subscribe to the purist Theravada strain of the faith, are

Watkins, Southall, 20.6M) reports that a police official identified the victim as Vilma Kari, a 65-year-old woman who immigrated to the US from the Philippines decades ago. NBC Nightly NewsVi (3/30, story 6, 2:15, Holt, 5.62M) and the New York Post (3/30, Mongelli, Woods, 7.45M) provided additional coverage

oup." The KNU, "which operates in the east along the border with Thailand, said it was bracing for a major government offensive. 'Now, thousands of Burma military ground troops are advancing into our territories from all fronts,' the group said in a statement." According to Reuters, the KNU "urged th

ding layover in Dubai without a way to get home." The AP adds, "In the rushed evacuation, scores of these foreign workers trying to get home to the Philippines and other countries that restricted international travel because of the pandemic have become stuck in limbo at hotels across Dubai." Media Analyse

s Rohingya "Genocide." Politico (8/9, Toosi, 6.73M) reports President Biden and Administration officials have declined to describe the treatment of Burma's Rohingya as "genocide" despite the fact that "multiple investigations, including by United Nations officials, have determined the Rohingya were vi

inued assertiveness in the South China Sea could compromise its claim to a peaceful rise and reinforce the call from countries like Vietnam and the Philippines for the United States to step up its military presence in the region. Perhaps the most important step the United States can take in the near term

ait. Beijing's investment in a vast infrastructure of overland energy pipelines from Central Asia means oil must cross volatile transit states like Burma and Pakistan and is delivered to western China where Beijing's influence waxes and wanes. Consequently, Beijing is eying the South China Sea as a s

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ait. Beijing's investment in a vast infrastructure of overland energy pipelines from Central Asia means oil must cross volatile transit states like Burma and Pakistan and is delivered to western China where Beijing's influence waxes and wanes. Consequently, Beijing is eying the South China Sea as a s

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