Michael Martin is an adjunct fellow at Washington's Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). He served as a specialist policy adviser on Myanmar, China, Hong Kong, and Vietnam for two decades. His work included a 15-year tenure as a political and economic analyst with the Congressional Research Service of the Library of Congress.

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