China is a big ally and a big arms supplier to the coup, but analysts claim it also maintains relationships with cultural armed groups that control place close to its borders.
In northern Shan state, which edges Yunnan province in China, an ally of ethnic armed groups has recently taken control of country from the dictatorship.
Territory captured includes the government’s northern demand in the Shan state city of Lashio, house to about 150, 000 people.
The junta’s capture of the local command, its first by its backers since the military’s 2021 coup, sparked a rare public rebuke of the best generals by its supporters.
Min Aung Hlaing after said the empire was receiving weapons, including robots and short-range weapons, from “foreign” options that he did not identify.
Former foreign minister Qin Gang, who spoke with Min Aung Hlaing in May of last year, was the last major Chinese official to travel to the isolated dictatorship.
Wang Yi, a top Myanmar military official, did not attend a meeting with Burmese democracy innovator Aung San Suu Kyi, who has been held by the military since it seized power.