9 January 2020
By Aparupa Bhattacherjee
The general election 2020 which is scheduled for November will be the major focus for this year. The failure of national ethnic reconciliation and international criticism for the Rohingya crisis will continue to haunt the government. The external pressure especially from China given the maiden visit by Xi Jinping will have its impact internally especially on the ethnic minorities. Even in 2020, the economic slowdown that could not be cured will be one of the major catastrophes of the NLD government. But this will not deter the NLD from coming back to power again