Mahi Ramakrishnan

Mahi Ramakrishnan writes at the fault lines of power, migration and memory in Southeast Asia. Her work fuses geopolitical analysis with a poet’s edge, interrogating how states manufacture vulnerability across Southeast Asia. Through research, advocacy, and storytelling, she maps the structures that thrive on silence and pushes back. http://linkedin.com/in/mahi-ramakrishnan-3a552320

Security

Essay: When China Blinks, Myanmar Shifts and People Move

Mahi Ramakrishnan · December 28, 2025

Forced migration in Myanmar serves as a strategic diagnostic, revealing how China’s geopolitical calculations shift regional power and human lives.