Two senior regime officials pegged to lead trade talks with the administration of US President Donald Trump have both denied being assigned to the role.
Dr. Zaw Oo, an economist recently appointed to the junta-controlled Central Bank of Myanmar’s board of directors, and Min Min, the regime’s deputy minister for commerce, told Myanmar Now they weren’t aware of any plans to form a trade delegation.
“I haven’t been assigned any responsibility” related to trade negotiations, said Zaw Oo, who is also director of the Myanmar Narrative Think Tank, which advises the junta on economic policy.
He also noted that such talks would need to begin before August 1, the deadline for the start of tariffs set by Trump in a letter sent to junta chief Min Aung Hlaing on July 7.
In that letter—which the Myanmar dictator . . .
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