{"id":114716,"date":"2021-02-01T07:56:11","date_gmt":"2021-02-01T12:56:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=114716"},"modified":"2021-02-01T08:27:01","modified_gmt":"2021-02-01T13:27:01","slug":"biden-admin-responds-to-myanmars-military-coup-we-will-take-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-admin-responds-to-myanmars-military-coup-we-will-take-action\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden Admin Responds To Myanmar\u2019s Military Coup: We \u2018Will Take Action\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbiden-admin-responds-to-myanmars-military-coup-we-will-take-action%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=114716&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The Biden administration responded to an early morning military coup in Myanmar on Monday by threatening to &#8220;take action against those responsible.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Myanmar\u2019s military detained &#8220;Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, and her top lieutenants in early morning raids and seizing power from a government established only five years ago,&#8221; The New York Times <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/01\/31\/world\/asia\/myanmar-coup-aung-san-suu-kyi.html\">reported<\/a>. &#8220;Hours later, with politicians and activists alike racing to find out who had been detained, a military television network announced a one-year state of emergency with ultimate authority transferred to the army chief, Senior Gen. Min Aung Hlaing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Myanmar\u2019s military performed poorly in its November elections, refused to accept the results, claimed that it was stolen, and tried taking its case to the Myanmar\u2019s Supreme Court.<\/p>\n<p>With the coup underway, flights were reportedly cut off from the country, phone and internet services went down in major cities, and some reporters went into hiding.<\/p>\n<p>The Biden administration immediately threatened to take action against the military powers responsible for the coup.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, White House press secretary Jen Psaki said:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>The United States is alarmed by reports that the Burmese military has taken steps to undermine the country\u2019s democratic transition, including the arrest of State Counselor Aung San Suu Kyi and other civilian officials in Burma. President Biden has been briefed by National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan. We continue to affirm our strong support for Burma\u2019s democratic institutions and, in coordination with our regional partners, urge the military and all other parties to adhere to democratic norms and the rule of law, and to release those detained today. The United States opposes any attempt to alter the outcome of recent elections or impede Myanmar\u2019s democratic transition, and will take action against those responsible if these steps are not reversed. We are monitoring the situation closely and stand with the people of Burma, who have already endured so much in their quest for democracy and peace.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The coup was announced on a military-owned television station that claimed the country&#8217;s constitution allowed for the military to declare a national emergency. The military said that the national emergency would last one year and that, at the end of the period, it would oversee what it deemed would be free and fair multiparty elections.<\/p>\n<p>Secretary of State Antony Blinken issued a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.state.gov\/burmese-military-arrests-of-civilian-government-leaders\/\">statement<\/a> similar to the statement that Psaki gave, saying:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>The United States expresses grave concern and alarm regarding reports that the Burmese military has detained multiple civilian government leaders, including State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi, and civil society leaders.\u00a0 We call on Burmese military leaders to release all government officials and civil society leaders and respect the will of the people of Burma as expressed in democratic elections on November 8.\u00a0 The United States stands with the people of Burma in their aspirations for democracy, freedom, peace, and development. The military must reverse these actions immediately.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">member<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Biden administration responded to an early morning military coup in Myanmar on Monday by threatening to \u201ctake action against those responsible.\u201d Myanmar\u2019s military detained \u201cDaw Aung San Suu Kyi, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1892352,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[4496,3620,4508,4505,4502,4499],"class_list":["post-114716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-admin","tag-biden","tag-coup","tag-military","tag-myanmars","tag-responds"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114716\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1892352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}