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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
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 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.