Myanmar’s lead opposition leader Aung Sang Suu Kyi has urged caution in a policy speech to the World Economic Forum of East Asia, as the world watches her nation’s reform process.“These days I am coming across what I call reckless optimism,” the Nobel Prize winner told an audience in Bangkok, adding that global policy makers should take an approach of “healthy skepticism.” On her first foreign trip in over 20 years, Suu Kyi told her audience that Myanmar’s reforms are only beginning and would require hard work and national solidarity. “Our success, how irreversible the reform process is, will depend on national commitment,” she said.
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