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The #MilkTeaAlliance in Southeast Asia: Digital Revolution and Repression in Myanmar and Thailand

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Digital Rights
Digital Surveillance
Military Coup

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Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)
Karen Lee

Date Published: Apr 16, 2021

Abstract: Following the February 1 coup, Myanmar’s netizens became the latest to join the #MilkTeaAlliance, an online collective of pro-democracy youth across Asia.

Drawing from the protest movements in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and neighboring Thailand, youth activists in Myanmar have leveraged their intimate knowledge of digital tools to protest authoritarianism. Inspired by the movement in Myanmar, the nearly year-long protests in Thailand against that country’s military-led government have gained renewed momentum.

The rise of digital activism across Southeast Asia in the past half-decade has featured a new generation of protesters leveraging social media and co-opting popular symbols to attract international coverage and garner sympathy for their causes.

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