BEIJING—China believes that Burma is now ready to take back hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslims sheltering in Bangladesh who have fled violence in the country’s Rakhine state, the Chinese government’s top diplomat told his Bangladeshi opposite number on Friday.
Since August 2017, about 700,000 Rohingya Muslims and Hindus have fled a military crackdown in mainly Buddhist Burma, many reporting killings, rape and arson on a large scale in the western state of Rakhine, U.N. and other aid organizations have said.
