Jan 20, 2025 · China showed its displeasure with the new rebel attacks by shutting down border crossings, cutting electricity to Myanmar towns and taking other measures to end the fighting. China has reopened its border gates linking with the areas controlled by the MNDAA and the United Wa State Army, another powerful rebel group in eastern Shan state ...

4 days ago · The latest China-brokered truce in Myanmar’s civil war is likely to hold for now but lasting peace may still be a pipe dream, according to observers. Myanmar’s military government and a major ...

China–Myanmar relations (Chinese: 中缅关系; Burmese: တရုတ်မြန်မာဆက်ဆံရေး) are the international relations between the People's Republic of China and Myanmar. China and Myanmar have active bilateral relations with each other.

Jan 22, 2025 · Some gates on the China-Myanmar border have reopened after a major rebel army in northeastern Myanmar agreed to a ceasefire with the Myanmar armed forces in China-mediated talks over the weekend.

Aug 26, 2024 · As the most influential foreign actor in Myanmar, China continues to play an important role in how Myanmar’s civil war will unfold. This piece by a next-generation Myanmar scholar analyzes the manner in which China approaches the junta and resistance groups to maximize protection of its own interests.

Aug 1, 2024 · While China’s interventions to halt fighting in Myanmar have failed, belligerents are more dependent on Beijing. The junta regime has grossly misread Chinese intentions in seeking security support. The war’s trajectory risks an authoritarian outcome, even as the army wobbles toward collapse.

Aug 14, 2024 · BANGKOK (AP) — China’s top diplomat on Wednesday visited Myanmar and met with the leader of its military government as growing instability from the neighboring country’s civil war causes concern in Beijing.

Aug 7, 2023 · A diplomatic intervention by China is propping up the junta in Myanmar by pushing the country’s strongest ethnic armies to limit their support for the post-coup uprising. By helping to slow the evolution of the resistance movement, China may ensure the longer-term survival of …

Myanmar and China are conducting naval drills together as the military government in the Southeast Asian nation loses ground in the northeast to a coalition of armed ethnic militias that also has strong ties to Beijing.

Dec 19, 2023 · As Myanmar’s largest trading partner, China has sold the junta over $250m in arms. Yet in late October China appeared to reconsider its interests in its war-ravaged neighbour.