Top Chinese official in ‘cooperation’ talks with Myanmar FMTNews FMTWorld
YANGON: A top Chinese intelligence official has visited Myanmar to discuss military “cooperation” with the junta, Myanmar state media reported today, the latest high-profile delegation sent by Beijing to its internationally isolated ally.
Major-general Yang Yang, acting director-general of the intelligence bureau of the joint staff department of China’s central military commission, met the junta’s No 2 official, Soe Win, for talks on “cooperation between the two armies”, state media said. Several projects in Beijing’s sprawling Belt and Road infrastructure initiative are slated to run through northern Myanmar, linking China’s landlocked Yunnan province with the Indian Ocean.Some of these groups have clashed repeatedly with the Myanmar military in the aftermath of the coup, and an alliance of China-backed rebels in March called for Beijing’s help to defuse the crisis.