YANGON: China's foreign minister met Myanmar's military chief in Naypyidaw on Tuesday (May 2), officials said, the highest-ranking Chinese official to meet the country's top general since a coup more than two years ago. Myanmar has been riven by violence since the putsch that ousted Aung San Suu Kyi's gove
YANGON: China's foreign minister met Myanmar's military chief in Naypyidaw on Tuesday , officials said, the highest-ranking Chinese official to meet the country's top general since a coup more than two years ago.
China"stands with Myanmar on the international stage", Foreign Minister Qin Gang told military chief Min Aung Hlaing, according to a Burmese-language statement from the junta's information team. The two discussed"diplomatic relations, friendly cooperation, the recent situation in Myanmar, border trade, investments and cooperation on energy and electricity", the junta statement said.
Several Beijing-backed infrastructure projects are slated to run through northern Myanmar and link China's landlocked Yunnan province with the Indian Ocean.Beijing also backs and arms several ethnic rebel groups along its border with Myanmar, analysts say. China has maintained ties with the junta that has been shunned by many western countries over its bloody crackdown on opposition to its rule.
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