AsiaInt Political and Strategic Review, April 2005

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Time is running out for the Association of South-East Asian Nations (Asean) to decide its position on Myanmar. In July 2006 Myanmar is set to assume the bloc's revolving chairmanship, meaning Asean will for the subsequent year be led by a country US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice recently termed an "outpost of tyranny". The damage will not just be to Asean's credibility: the US for one has warned it might not attend Asean summits that take place in Myanmar, meaning the bloc will lose touch with at least one of its biggest trade partners_