Myanmar junta chief meets China\u2019s Xi in first post-coup talks, discusses stability and earthquake recovery aid<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Chinese President Xi Jinping waves to spectators as he leaves after a military parade on Victory Day, marking the 80th anniversary of the victory over Nazi Germany in World War Two, in Red Square in central Moscow May 9, 2025. \u2014 Reuters pic<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Saturday, 10 May 2025 1:05 PM MYT<\/p>\n\n\n\n
BANGKOK, May 10 \u2014 Myanmar\u2019s junta chief met China\u2019s president for the first time since seizing power, state media reported today, the highest-level meeting with a key ally for the internationally sanctioned military leader.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Senior General Min Aung Hlaing led a military coup in 2021 overthrowing Myanmar\u2019s brief experiment with democracy and plunging the nation into civil war.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In the four years since, his armed forces have battled dozens of ethnic armed groups and rebel militias \u2014 some with close links to China \u2014 opposed to its rule.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The conflict has seen Min Aung Hlaing draw condemnation from rights groups and pursued by the International Criminal Court for crimes against humanity, but he has maintained close ties to allies China and Russia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He met Beijing\u2019s leader Xi Jinping in Moscow on the sidelines of Russia\u2019s Victory Day celebrations on Friday and thanked China for its humanitarian assistance following a 7.7-magnitude earthquake in March, reported junta media The Global New Light of Myanmar<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He also thanked China \u201cfor its support of Myanmar\u2019s stance on regional and international fronts\u201d, it said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Chinese state media Xinhua news reported that Xi expressed his country\u2019s support for Myanmar pursuing development \u201csuited to its national conditions, safeguarding its sovereignty, independence, territorial integrity and national stability, and steadily advancing its domestic political agenda\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Xi said he hoped Myanmar would take \u201cconcrete measures to ensure the safety of Chinese personnel, institutions and projects in Myanmar, and intensify efforts to combat cross-border crimes\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
More than 6,600 people have been killed since the coup, according to the Assistance Association for Political Prisoners, and millions displaced.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Concerned about the violence on its doorstep destabilising regional peace and its economic ambitions, China has reportedly mediated talks between Myanmar\u2019s junta and key rebel groups.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
China is a major ally and arms supplier to the junta, but analysts say it also maintains ties with armed ethnic groups in Myanmar that hold territory near its border.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Beijing has long been eyeing Myanmar\u2019s resource-rich northern Shan state \u2014 now under rebel control \u2014 for infrastructure investment under its trillion-dollar Belt and Road infrastructure initiative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
While Min Aung Hlaing\u2019s Friday meeting with Xi was his first time in his role as junta chief, the general had previously met the Chinese leader in Myanmar\u2019s capital Naypyidaw in January 2020, a year before seizing power. \u2014 AFP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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