CNA Explains: Myanmar’s ex-president visited China, followed by its junta No 2. What’s the play?

CNA
Leong Wai Kit
10 Jul 2024

Myanmar correspondent Leong Wai Kit unpacks recent trips to China by Thein Sein and Soe Win, and what both countries want from each other.

This handout photograph taken on Jul 6, 2024 and released by the Myanmar Military Information Team shows Myanmar's military deputy commander in chief of defence services Soe Win (C), upon his arrival at Qingdao in Shandong province of China. (Photo: AFP) 

Beijing has been regularly inviting Myanmar’s junta-appointed ministers to China on various official visits.

U.S. imposes sanctions on Myanmar military commander over Rohingya abuses

REUTERS 

17-07-2019

 

FILE PHOTO - Myanmar military commander-in-chief, Senior General Min Aung Hlaing, attends a military exercise at Ayeyarwaddy delta region in Myanmar, February 3, 2018. REUTERS/Lynn Bo Bo/Pool

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States on Tuesday announced sanctions on the Myanmar military’s Commander-in-Chief Min Aung Hlaing and other military leaders over extrajudicial killings of Rohingya Muslims, barring them from entry to the United States.

The steps, which also covered Min Aung Hlaing’s deputy, Soe Win, and two other senior commanders and their families, are the strongest the United States has taken in response to massacres of minority Rohingyas in Myanmar, also known as Burma.