Beijing to facilitate repatriation of Rohingyas

The Daily Star
UNB, Dhaka
Sat May 27, 2023

Says China's vice minister as he holds talks with Bangladesh foreign secretary 

China today reiterated its resolve to facilitate the early, safe, sustainable and voluntary repatriation of the Rohingyas to Rakhine State from Bangladesh.

At the 12th Foreign Office Consultations held at the State Guest House Padma today, Bangladesh and China agreed in principle to have dedicated dialogue on public security issues.

Bangladesh delegation was led by Foreign Secretary Masud Bin Momen while the Chinese delegation was led by Sun Weidong, vice minister of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of China. 

 

India Faces a Two-Front Challenge From Post-Coup Myanmar

THE DIPLOMAT
By Niranjan Marjani
April 26, 2023

Myanmar’s deteriorating situation risks destabilizing India’s Northeast, while the junta’s embrace of China poses threats in the Indian Ocean.

 

 The military coup in Myanmar in February 2021 has altered India’s engagements with the Southeast Asian nation. Myanmar has been an integral part of India’s Act East Policy, with India developing connectivity projects like the India-Myanmar-Thailand Trilateral Highway and the Kaladan Multi-Modal Transit Transport Project linking India’s Northeast region to Southeast Asia. India has thus moved cautiously with regard to Myanmar since the coup, avoiding a confrontational approach with the military government.

51 Years Of Myanmar-Bangladesh Ties – OpEd

eurasiareview 

Jubeda Chowdhury
January 13, 2023

Locations of Bangladesh (green) and Myanmar (Burma). Credit: Wikipedia Commons

January 13, 2023, marks 51 years of bilateral ties between Myanmar and Bangladesh. Myanmar recognized Bangladesh as a sovereign state on January 13, 1972. There were many ups and downs between the two neighbors over these 51 years. Why was this? Because the relations between Bangladesh and Myanmar were strained time to time. But this strained tie must be smoothed for ensuring greater regional interest. But Myanmar-Bangladesh needs to strengthen ties for ensuring the greater interest of the two regions such as South Asia and Southeast Asia.

Myanmar military authority informed Beijing they are willing to take back Rohingyas after verification- Bangladesh Foreign Minister

News On AIR
ByAIR News
October 21, 2022

Bangladesh Foreign Minister Dr. A K Abdul Momen has said that Myanmar military authorities informed Beijing that they are willing to take back the displaced Rohingyas after verification, reports the official news agency BSS. Briefing the media about the outcome of the meeting with the Chinese Ambassador Li Jiming in Dhaka on Thursday, Dr. Momen said that Myanmar’s military government has conveyed that they would honour all the previous deals signed between Dhaka and Naypyidaw to commence Rohingya repatriation. However, Myanmar did not mention any specific date for the process to start. He said that China has assured Bangladesh that it will continue its efforts to resolve the Rohingya crisis.

Rohingya repatriation: Dhaka may seek updates on Beijing's efforts

daily sun
UNB
19th October, 2022 

Bangladesh is likely to seek an update from the Chinese side on Thursday regarding its efforts to find ways for repatriation of the Rohingya refugees to Myanmar.

Chinese Ambassador to Bangladesh Li Jiming is scheduled to meet Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen at his office at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Thursday morning where the Rohingya issue is likely to be raised, a senior official told UNB.

 

Rohingya repatriation: Dhaka may seek updates on Beijing's efforts

Dhaka Tribune

UNB
October 19, 2022 

Chinese Ambassador to Bangladesh Li Jiming is scheduled to meet Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen on Thursday

Bangladesh is likely to seek an update from the Chinese side on Thursday regarding its efforts to find ways for repatriation of the Rohingya refugees to Myanmar.

Chinese Ambassador to Bangladesh Li Jiming is scheduled to meet Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen at his office at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Thursday morning where the Rohingya issue is likely to be raised, a senior official told UNB.

India, China and the Rohingya issue

ASIA TIMES
by Pema Tseten
March 24, 2018 

Rohingya refugees stretch their hands to receive aid distributed by local organizations at Balukhali makeshift refugee camp in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, September 14, 2017. Photo: Reuters/Danish Siddiqui

Myanmar occupies a pivotal position in India’s strategic calculus as New Delhi establishes a connection with Southeast Asia through its “Look East” or “Act East” policy. The region has received the highest level of patronage under different Indian administrations. This was  intensified under Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his “Neighborhood First” policy with an active focus on improving ties with India’s immediate neighbors.

China and India's game on Rohingya

the Independent

Md. Tareq Hasan
1 March, 2021

The biggest thing is that the Rohingyas were forced to flee from Myanmar 3 years ago, but Aung San Suu Kyi could not take any initiative to talk to the Bangladeshi authorities and take them back.

A military coup in Myanmar on February 1 could hamper the repatriation and resettlement of Myanmar's Rohingya population. The international community and world leaders are currently keeping a close eye on the situation in Myanmar and the Rohingya, but China and India, Myanmar's trusted allies, have a key role to play in this issue. But neither China nor India has yet commented on the Myanmar coup. What kind of impact the military coup in Myanmar could have on the Rohingya has given rise to a surprising question.

တရုတ်နိုင်ငံ၏ စီးပွားရေးကို အရှိန်အဟုန်မြင့် တိုးတက်စေ ခဲ့သူ (သို့) တိန့်ရှောင်ဖိန်

တရုတ်နိုင်ငံ၏ စီးပွားရေးကို အရှိန်အဟုန်မြင့် တိုးတက်စေခဲ့သူ (သို့) တိန့်ရှောင်ဖိန်

မည်သည့်နိုင်ငံတွင်မဆို နိုင်ငံကိုစတင်တည်ထောင်ခဲ့သည့် ထင်ရှားသည့်ခေါင်းဆောင်တယောက်တော့ ရှိကြ စမြဲတော့ဖြစ်သည်။ သို့သော် ထိုခေါင်းဆောင်များ၏ နောက်တွင်ထင်ရှားနာမည်‌ေကျာ်ကြားသည့် ခေါင်း ဆောင်တချို့လည်း မပါမဖြစ်ရှိကြပါသည်။ ထို့ထဲကမှ သံမဏိလိုလူ၊ လောကဓံအလှည့်အပြောင်း၊ အနိမ့်အမြင့် အတက်အကျ သာမက ဘဝတလျှောက်လုံး အခက်အခဲများစွာကို ရင်ဆိုင်ခဲ့သည့် ရှားပါးလူများထဲတွင် တိန့် ရှောင်ဖိန်လည်း တယောက်အပါအဝင်ဖြစ်သည်။

တရုတ်နိုင်ငံဟု ပြောလျှင် တရုတ်ပြည်သူ့သမ္မတနိုင်ငံကို ထူထောင်ခဲ့သူ မော်စီတုံးကို ပထမဆုံး ပြေးမြင်ကြ မည်ဖြစ်သည်။ သို့သော် တရုတ်နိုင်ငံသမိုင်းတွင် မော်စီတုံးသာမက ချူအင်လိုင်း၊ တိန့်ရှောင်ဖိန် စသောခေါင်း ဆောင်များစွာ ပေါ်ထွက်ခဲ့ပါသည်။ မော်စီတုံးသည် တရုတ်ကွန်မြူနစ်ပါတီ၏ ဥက္ကဌလည်းဖြစ်ပြီး တော်လှန်ရေး အ တွေးအခေါ်တရပ်နှင့် နိုင်ငံသစ်ကို ထူထောင်ခဲ့သူဖြစ်သော်လည်း အမှန်တကယ် တရုတ်နိုင်ငံ၏ စီးပွားရေး ဖွံ့ဖြိုးတိုးတက်မှု့ကို ဆောင်ကြဉ်းပေးနိုင်သူသည် တိန့်ရှောင်ဖိန်ပင် ဖြစ်သည်။ 

တရုတ်ပြည်သမိုင်းအကျဉ်းချုပ် ( ၁၈၄၀-၁၉၁၉ ) လင်ယီရေး

[Book] China: From Permanent Revolution to Counter-Revolution

John Peter Roberts21 January 2016

Page 1 of 23

 

This book is a comprehensive analysis of the revolutionary history of China, from the early 20th century to the present era of crisis, aided by a wealth of research which cuts across the many historical distortions both of bourgeois academia and of the Chinese Communist Party.

This book answers the questions:

• What was the class composition and class nature of the Chinese Communist Party when it took power in 1949?
• What forces pushed the Mao regime, despite its explicitly class-collaborationist strategy, to take measures which were objectively socialist and to establish the Chinese workers’ state?
• The Chinese Revolution was a practical test of both Trotsky’s theory of permanent revolution and Mao’s theory of uninterrupted revolution by stages. Which theory matched reality?
• The degeneration of the Chinese People’s Republic to capitalism has been a second rigorous practical test of Trotsky’s analyses. Has his prognosis that without a political revolution to overthrow the regime, a Stalinist bureaucratic state would return to capitalism, been proved correct?

China Should Resolve The Rohingya Refugee Crisis As Soon As Possible – OpEd

eurasiareview
Pathik Hasan

November 16, 2021                                   Displaced Rohingya in Myanmar. Photo Credit: Tasnim News Agency

China should resolve the Rohingya refugee crisis as soon as possible for ensuring the greater interest of South Asia and South East Asia to some extent its own interest.

For South Asia in general and for Bangladesh as well, the Rohingya crisis is one of the burning issues for a while. As an extra regional power, however, the role of China is very critical here—not only because of her long-standing involvement in the South Asian region but also China being one of the P5 members of the UN Security Council. Nevertheless, it is time Beijing acknowledged and shifted her compass over to the humanitarian grounds and the plight of the Rohingyas rather than maintaining an esoteric image.

International Pressures, Strategic Preference and Myanmar's China Policy Since 1988 by Nian Peng

China special envoy makes unannounced Myanmar visit

Frontier Myanmar

By AFP
SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

United Wa State Army leader Bao Youxiang (L) and China's Foreign Ministry's special envoy for Asian Affairs Sun Guoxiang watch a military parade, to commemorate 30 years of a ceasefire signed with the Myanmar military in the Wa State, in Panghsang on April 17, 2019. (AFP)

China’s special envoy for Asian affairs has wrapped an unannounced, week-long visit to Myanmar that included discussions with its junta leader on the country’s political future, Beijing said on August 31.

Myanmar has been in political chaos since the military ousted the civilian government in February, launching a bloody crackdown on dissent.

International efforts to stem the violence have failed to yield results, with the European Union accusing junta allies Russia and China of blocking efforts at the UN Security Council to impose an arms embargo.

China Doesn’t Want Myanmar’s NLD Dissolved: Informed Sources

The Irrawaddy

27 August 2021

Chinese President Xi Jinping (right) and Myanmar’s detained State Counselor Daw Aung San Suu Kyi (left) at the launch ceremony for events to mark the 70th anniversary of China-Myanmar diplomatic relations in Naypyitaw in January 2020. / Myanmar State Counselor’s Office

China has voiced concern over the Myanmar military regime’s plan to dissolve the National League for Democracy (NLD), the party that won the junta-annulled 2020 general election in a landslide, several informed sources told The Irrawaddy. Chinese officials have conveyed to the regime’s leaders Beijing’s message that it wants to see the NLD continue to exist as a political party, they said.

Politicians close to the NLD and several China-Myanmar watchers said the Chinese recently told Myanmar officials that China will continue to support Myanmar and maintain border trade and infrastructure projects on one condition: that the junta keeps the NLD alive.

US, China tread warily as Myanmar burns

THE STRAIT TIMES
Tan Hui Yee
Indochina Bureau Chief 

AUG 16, 2021,

Volunteers in Myanmar helping a Covid-19 patient with his oxygen supply in the town of Kale last month.PHOTO: REUTERS

Power Play is a weekly column that looks at various facets of US-China rivalry and its implications for Asia.

BANGKOK - Last Tuesday, a group of young people cornered by the Myanmar junta chose a likely death over arrest. They jumped out of a high-rise building in Yangon. The youth were quickly lionised on social media, where those resisting the Feb 1 military coup vowed vengeance.

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New Great Game rages in post-coup Myanmar

ASIA TIMES
Bertil Lintner
June 12, 2021

China and US on opposed sides in Myanmar's escalating civil war while Japan, India and ASEAN struggle to strike a middle ground

Anti-coup protesters show their support for Myanmar's National Unity Government. Photo: Jose Lopes Amaral / NurPhoto via AFP

CHIANG MAI – China has declared its support for Senior General Min Aung Hlaing’s military-coup government in Myanmar. The United States and the European Union have implemented sanctions and declared their support for the people’s power movement agitating against the dictatorship.

India and Japan are keeping quiet because they don’t want to push Myanmar further back into the clutches of China. Thailand is too dependent on natural gas imports from Myanmar to dare to condemn or even criticize the coup.

The rest of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, or ASEAN, has once again demonstrated that it is wholly incapable of resolving regional crises. 

China, Myanmar named in US genocide report

UCA News

UCA News reporter
Published: July 14, 2021

Report highlights China's treatment of Uyghurs and Myanmar military's ethnic cleansing and post-coup atrocities

Protesters gather outside the Belgian parliament in Brussels on July 8 as MPs vote on a resolution to recognize China's policies towards Uyghurs as genocide. (Photo: AFP)

China, which has been accused of ill treatment of its Uyghur minority, and its neighbor and ally Myanmar, which faces allegations of ethnic cleansing, have been named in a new US genocide report.

The State Department’s annual report to Congress on countries where there is risk of atrocities being committed named China and Myanmar along with Eritrea, Syria and South Sudan.

U.S. Repeats 'Genocide' Accusations Against China

Radio Free Europe
Radio Liberty
RFE/RL

July 12, 2021

Uyghurs and others pray in the Id Kah Mosque in Kashgar in western China's Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region during a government-organized trip for foreign journalists in April.

The United States has repeated genocide allegations against China over its treatment of Uyghurs, Kazakhs, and members of Xinjiang's other indigenous, mostly Muslim, ethnic groups.

The message came alongside additional sanctions warnings against Burma, Eritrea, Ethiopia, and South Sudan over ethnic cleansing in their respective conflicts.

All were contained in materials sent by the Biden administration as part of the State Department's annual report to Congress on the prevention of genocides and atrocities.

China is not happy about Myanmar’s coup

The Economist

Banyan
Jul 10th 2021

Yet it is betting that the generals will prevail

Almost as soon as the tanks rolled into Naypyidaw, Myanmar’s capital, in February, rumours began circulating on social media about how China would respond. It is a sign of its influence: China is probably the only country that could coax Myanmar’s generals to the negotiating table. The speculation was laid to rest only in June, when the Chinese embassy referred to Min Aung Hlaing, the Burmese commander-in-chief, as Myanmar’s “leader”. The next day, China convened a meeting of foreign ministers from asean, a club of South-East Asian nations, and included the military government’s representative. With their putsch, the generals are trying to wind the clock back to 2010, when they still ran the show. China appears to be adjusting its calendar.