Analysis: ‘Chinese Business, Out!’ Burma Anger Threatens Investment Plans

Analysis: ‘Chinese Business, Out!’ Burma Anger Threatens Investment Plans
Demonstrators protest outside the Chinese embassy against the military coup in Yangon, Burma, on Feb. 19, 2021. Stringer/Reuters
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“China’s gas pipeline will be burned,” chanted a group of protesters in Burma (also known as Myanmar) this week on the route of a Chinese pipeline.

Hailed by the Chinese regime as a symbol of “mutually beneficial cooperation”, the pipeline has become a target for public anger over perceptions Beijing is backing the junta that seized power in a Feb. 1 coup.