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Amidst Crisis and Conflict in Burma, ‘Opportunist’ China Maintains Its Interests: Southeast Asia Analyst

China is working to protect its substantial investment in neighboring, war-torn Burma.
Amidst Crisis and Conflict in Burma, ‘Opportunist’ China Maintains Its Interests: Southeast Asia Analyst
A Burmese woman walks behind a warning sign along the boundary line in the China-Burma border town of Wanding, in China's southwestern province of Yunnan, on Sept. 27 2007. STR/AFP via Getty Images
Venus Upadhayaya
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Burma (also known as Myanmar) is in the news for many reasons these days, and China runs like an underlying thread through almost all of them: its intensifying civil war, the mediation process, or more broadly, the politics, foreign policy, trade, defense or the neighbors of the southeast Asian country.

Venus Upadhayaya
Venus Upadhayaya
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Venus Upadhayaya reports on India, China, and the Global South. Her traditional area of expertise is in Indian and South Asian geopolitics. Community media, sustainable development, and leadership remain her other areas of interest.
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