Blinken vows pressure on Myanmar junta on visit to Thailand

In this file photo taken on August 25, 2015, Chairperson of the National League for Democracy (NLD) Aung San Suu Kyi listens during an interview at Parliament in Naypyidaw. One of the Myanmar military's first moves during its coup last year was to place Aung San Suu Kyi, the country's elected leader and a democracy figurehead who has spent decades battling military rule, under house arrest. On June 24, 2022, the junta announced the Nobel laureate, 77, would be shifted to solitary confinement in prison in the capital Naypyidaw. - AFP

BANGKOK, July 11, 2022 (AFP): US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has vowed no let-up on pressuring Myanmar's junta, and said China should be in agreement as he met democracy activists on a visit to neighbouring Thailand.

Blinken also met with Thailand's leadership and hailed the kingdom's role in a renewed US push in Southeast Asia, a key area of competition with China.