Burma’s Ambassador to China Dies Suddenly

Burma’s Ambassador to China Dies Suddenly
A man walks past a paramilitary police officer keeping watch outside the Burmese embassy in Beijing on Aug. 8, 2022. Carlos Garcia Rawlins/Reuters
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BEIJING—Burma’s ambassador to China died suddenly on Sunday in the southwestern Chinese city of Kunming, according to an obituary in Burma state media and diplomatic sources in Beijing.

The obituary for Ambassador U Myo Thant Pe by Burma’s foreign ministry in a state newspaper on Monday did not specify his cause of death.