Far from acting as a broker, Beijing is playing both sides in a state torn by brutality and chaos
Myanmar's senior general, Min Aung Hlaing , meeting with China's foreign minister, Wang Yi, in Naypyidaw on 14 August 2024.Myanmar's senior general, Min Aung Hlaing , meeting with China's foreign minister, Wang Yi, in Naypyidaw on 14 August 2024.hings fall apart, if you let them – and ethnically, religiously, ideologically fractured Myanmar, formerly Burma, has never been a model of harmonious, integrated nationhood.
Gruesome atrocities occasionally push neglected Myanmar into the international headlines. One occurred this month when up to 200 unarmed civilians fleeing into Bangladesh to escape fighting in Buddhist-majority Rakhine state were Although the junta has promised elections, Beijing evidently has no intention of helping restore democracy
As the advancing insurgents seized up to 200 army bases and border crossings, the junta, infuriated by Beijing’s machinations, reportedly authorised anti-China protests in several cities. Switching again, China announced in December that it had miraculously brokered a ceasefire and offered to facilitate peace talks. But nobody trusts anyone. Fighting resumed in earnest in June.
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