In the first visit to the powerful adjacent country since he seized power in a 2021 revolution, Myanmar junta leader Min Aung Hlaing may travel to China this week to go local conferences, according to state media on Monday ( Nov 4).
Myanmar has experienced chaos since the coup, with areas along its border with China and places along its border as an armed opposition movement joined with established ethnic minority armies to take control of sizable lands from the military government.
Min Aung Hlaing did enter summits of the Greater Mekong Subregion and the Ayeyawady-Chao Phraya-Mekong Economic Co-operation Strategy (ACMECS) and add a gathering with Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam on Nov 6 and Nov 7 in Kunming, MRTV said.
He will meet with and speak with Chinese authorities, and he will work to strengthen diplomatic relations, economic growth, and development in a number of sectors, the statement read, referring to the junta chief.
The Myanmar government’s decay, in the face of quick gains by anti-junta fighters since a surprise unpleasant last October, has alarmed China, which has sealed parts of the border and halted essential imports to rebel-controlled areas, Reuters has reported.
In Myanmar, China has significant oil and gas pipelines passing through the nation and a planned deep-sea slot in the Bay of Bengal as its corporate financial interests.
Beijing also imports unique rocks from its smaller neighbor to use in the wind power and automotive industries.
” Whether he is going it to get more Chinese aid or more Chinese stress, it’s simply bad for the people”, said David Mathieson, an independent scientist who tracks Myanmar.
” China has made obvious they are supporting the SAC and their votes move plan”, he said, referring to the regime’s State Administration Council, headed by Min Aung Hlaing.