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State media in Myanmar say the Southeast Asian nation's military government has recaptured a strategic gateway town after ...
With the Myanmar military rulers increasingly dependent on Beijing, a new report claims a state-owned Chinese company is helping the junta produce aerial bombs used against both rebels and civilians.
The global supply of heavy rare earths hinges in part on the outcome of a months-long battle between a rebel army and the ...
China does not actually want the Myanmar civil war to end, but wants the fighting to be reduced to levels where its economic ...
A drastic increase in unregulated production of rare earth minerals in Myanmar is causing serious environmental concerns ...
A shaky agreement to end fighting in northern Myanmar has served to highlight concerns in Beijing over the ongoing unrest – and the limits of China’s power to influence the ongoing civil war ...
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. ...
And last September, Beijing sent its Myanmar special envoy, Sun Guoxiang, to Myanmar. Sun met with top junta leaders, of course, but as Strangio noted, his meeting was kept relatively low-key.
BEIJING, Jan 20 (Reuters) - The Myanmar military and the Myanmar National Democratic Alliance Army (MNDAA) signed a formal agreement for a ceasefire that began on Saturday, China's foreign ...
Beijing likely wants to signal to Myanmar’s junta leaders that they should return to peace talks and de-escalate the conflict, analysts said. Listen to this article · 5:22 min Learn more.
When warplanes involved in fighting over northern Myanmar streaked across the border into China, an errant bomb killed Chinese farmers and put Beijing in a bind over a conflict it has tried to avoid.