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CogitAsia Podcast: Myanmar’s Elections & Modi Visits Silicon Valley

by cogitASIA Staff • October 2, 2015 • 0 Comments

This week we discuss the outlook for Myanmar’s upcoming general elections with the U.S. Ambassador to Burma Derek Mitchell. Ambassador Mitchell describes some of the key issues the U.S. government is monitoring in Myanmar in the run up to voting on November 8. Then Richard Rossow, CSIS Wadhwani Chair in U.S.-India Policy Studies, joins to assess Indian prime minister Narendra Modi’s recent visit to New York and Silicon Valley. Hosted by Colm Quinn. Audio edited by Samuel Ellis. Produced by Jeffrey Bean.