No Exit Strategy: Burma's Endless Crisis and America's Limited Options

House Foreign Affairs Committee, Subcommittee on East Asia and the Pacific & Subcommittee on South and Central Asia · November 20, 2025

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Chair opening: hearing purpose and framing

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Chair (identified in transcript as chairwoman Kim) opened the joint hearing to assess Burma's military and humanitarian crisis, called the December 2025 vote a 'sham election,' and urged Congress to act on human rights abuses, scam centers, and threats to US interests. She cited large displacement and poverty numbers and framed the crisis as both humanitarian and a US strategic interest.

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House Foreign Affairs Committee subcommittees on East Asia & the Pacific and on South & Central Asia held a joint hearing on the military and humanitarian crisis in Burma (Myanmar), focusing on the junta's planned December 2025 elections, the humanitarian crisis facing the Rohingya, and the growth of scam centers and transnational crime that fund the junta.

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