What’s next for Myanmar?

Senior General Min Aung Hliang, Myanmar’s Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, has now assumed full control of his country after seizing powers; and detaining top officials of the ruling National League for Democracy Party (NLD), including its leader and State Counsellor Ang San Suu Kyi on Monday morning.

The new Myanmar military junta is emerging to face a world which is very different to the one which they relinquished to the civilian-led government under Aung San Suu Kyi more than four years ago. And there are already hints what they may do in the coming weeks and months in a world facing shrinking democratic space, despite widespread condemnations of the coup.