Xi Jinping Kicks off Myanmar State Visit

THE I DIPLOMAT 
By Aung Shine Oo and Pyae Sone Win
January 17, 2020

The Chinese president arrived Friday in an effort to deepen bilateral ties. 

China’s President Xi Jinping was given a lavish welcome to Myanmar as he arrived Friday for a state visit meant to deepen bilateral relations at a critical time.

The visit nominally marks the 70th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and Myanmar, but also carries the promise of significantly boosting China’s profile and future investments.
Xi’s arrival was greeted with dancing children and youths waving the national flags of both countries and cheering, “Long live China-Myanmar friendship” and “Health to President Xi.”

Myanmar, China Ink Deals to Accelerate Belt and Road as Xi Courts an Isolated Suu Kyi

The New York Times

Reuters

Jan. 18, 2020

NAYPYITAW — China and Myanmar inked dozens of deals on Saturday to speed up infrastructure projects in the Southeast Asian nation, as Beijing seeks to cement its hold over a neighbour increasingly isolated by the West.

But no major new projects were agreed during the two-day visit by President Xi Jinping, the first of any Chinese leader in 19 years. Analysts said Myanmar was generally cautious of investments by Beijing and was also being careful ahead of elections later this year.

Still, Xi and Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi signed 33 agreements shoring up key projects that are part of the flagship Belt and Road Initiative, China’s vision of new trade routes described as a “21st century silk road”.

What China’s Xi will and won’t get in Myanmar

ASIA TIMES
Bertil Lintner,
Chiang Mai
January 16, 2020

Chinese leader to make historic Jan 17-18 visit in bid to advance contested Belt and Road Initiative 

When Xi Jinping travels to Myanmar on January 17, it will be the first visit by a sitting Chinese president since Jiang Zemin toured the country in December 2001.

Xi’s visit will show just how much times have changed between now and then. Jiang visited Myanmar when it was still ruled by a military junta and China was the then isolated nation’s closest ally.

Chinese leadership assures Hasina of prompt resolution of Rohingya crisis

Financial Express

Kamal Uddin Ahmed
Published: July 06, 2019

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina paid a five-day official visit to China from July 02-06 during which she attended the Summer Davos of the World Economic Forum (WEF) at Dalian.

During the visit, PM Hasina met with President Xi Jinping and Premier Li Keqiang and discussed a range of issues for boosting bilateral cooperation. The protracted Rohingya crisis was highlighted in the meetings. Hasina sought a stronger role from Beijing for a safe, voluntary and speedy repatriation of over 750,000 Rohingya refugees forcibly pushed into Bangladesh since August 2017.

Dhaka and Beijing have agreed on "prompt" resolution to the Rohingya crisis during Prime Minister Hasina's meeting with President Xi Jinping and Premier Li Keqiang.

Xi, Hasina ‘agree’ Rohingyas must return to Myanmar for quick end to crisis

bdnews24.com 
Reazul Bashar from Beijing,
Published: 06 Jul 2019

 Photo: Yasin Kabir Joy 

Chinese President Xi Jinping has “agreed” with Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina that Myanmar must take back the Rohingyas to end the refugee crisis swiftly, the foreign secretary has said.

“The two leaders agreed that this crisis can’t be left unaddressed and must be resolved fast,” Shahidul Haque told the media after the two leaders met in Beijing on Friday.

“A deal (on Rohingya repatriation) was signed two years ago and there is no disagreement on how the crisis will be resolved. They (Rohingyas) must return to their country,” he added.

ျမန္မာအတိုင္ပင္ခံပုဂၢိဳလ္ တရုတ္သမၼတနဲ႔ ေတြ႔ဆံု

VOA

ဗြီအိုေအ (ျမန္မာပုိင္း)

24 ဧၿပီ၊ 2019 

တ႐ုတ္ႏုိင္ငံမွာ က်င္းပမယ့္ ေခတ္သစ္ပုိးလမ္းမ တည္ေဆာက္ေရး ေဆြးေႏြးမယ့္ ညီလာခံကုိ တက္ေရာက္ ဖုိ႔ ဒီေန႔ပဲ ေဘဂ်င္းၿမိဳ႕ေတာ္ကုိ ေရာက္သြားတဲ့ ႏုိင္ငံေတာ္ အတုိင္ပင္ခံပုဂၢိဳလ္ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ဟာ တ႐ုတ္သမၼတ Xi Jingping နဲ႔ ေတြ႔ဆုံပါတယ္။