The Gap

Stories where coverage skews to one power-alignment — or, more tellingly, that state and government-aligned outlets won't touch at all. The latter are censorship blindspots, the most important gap signal in Southeast Asia. Detected from the alignment spread across each story's coverage.

CENSORSHIP BLINDSPOT

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Russian-backed tungsten project advances in eastern Myanmar near Chinese mine

A Russian-backed tungsten mining project approved by Myanmar's military is set to begin in eastern Shan State, near a large Chinese-run mine operated with the United Wa State Army. Analysts read it as the junta balancing its dependence on China and Russia.

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