This past weekend, Senator Jim Webb (D) of Virginia became the first senior U.S. politician to meet with the leader of Burma's military government, General Than Shwe. WIDE ANGLE discusses the implications with Maureen Aung-Thwin of the Open Society Institute.

Maureen Aung-Thwin is the director of the Open Society Institute’s Burma Project/Southeast Asia Initiative. She spoke with WIDE ANGLE host Aaron Brown about Burmese politics.