China, Myanmar sign $7.8 bln of deals - China Daily. BEIJING Sat Nov 15, 2014 9:29am IST BEIJING (Reuters) - China and Myanmar signed deals worth $7.8 billion for energy, agriculture, telecommunications, infrastructure and finance during Chinese Premier Li Keqiang's visit to the Southeast Asian country, state media reported on Saturday. The deals made on Friday include an agreement to build natural gas power plants, as well as $300 million in small-scale loans for agriculture, said the official China Daily newspaper.
China and Myanmar also agreed to set up an electricity cooperation committee, with the aim of keeping energy projects on track. In 2011, President Thein Sein suspended the $3.6 billion, Chinese-led Myitsone dam project, some 90 percent of whose power would have gone to China. The project has not been resumed. (Reporting by Paul Carsten; Editing by Simon Cameron-Moore) Chinese Investment in Myanmar: Lessons and Opportunities. By Rui Deng House on Inle Lake, located in the Nyaungshwe Township, Taunggyi District of Shan State, Myanmar. Rui Deng argues that China and other international investors should reflect on the Chinese investment experience in Myanmar. Source: Photo by Rui Deng, all rights reserved.
In April 2013 China’s newly appointed ambassador to Myanmar Yang Houlan officially encouraged increased corporate investment from Chinese corporations into Myanmar, which he feels will yield mutual benefit. However, the reality is that China has cut its investment in Myanmar since the $3.6 billion Myitsone dam project was halted last September because of domestic opposition. Why is this happening? Even so, if China can clean its own house, many problems may be readily resolved. While the guiding principle for China to engage countries like Myanmar is strategic economic diplomacy, China should alter its strategy of conducting business mainly at the government level. Shan Drug Suspect Handed to China. Burmese drugs kingpin Naw Kham arrives in Beijing guarded by Chinese police. (Photo: CCTV) A Shan drug suspect, who was lieutenant of an armed gang allegedly responsible for the murder of 13 Chinese sailors on the Mekong River last year, has been handed over to the Chinese authorities.
Local authorities in Kengtung Township, eastern Shan State, transferred Sai Aung Myat at 4 am on Tuesday. He surrendered to the Burmese government along with fellow gang members in May after his leader, infamous drugs kingpin Sai Naw Kham, was captured by the Laotian authorities and handed to China. Burma’s state-run media reported on Wednesday that Sai Aung Myat has been handed over to the Chinese authorities for just a short time to help with their investigation of the Oct. 5 Mekong murders. The statement said that Sai Aung Myat will only have to stay in China for the duration of his interrogation and will then once again be returned to Burma according to a bilateral agreement between the two neighbors. China Forces Myanmar’s Ethnic Refugees to Go Home. China Confident Burma Will Remain Stable | News. China says it is confident its neighbor and ally Burma will continue what Beijing describes as a process of peace and ethnic reconciliation following the release of pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi.
But an official refused to say if her freedom will have any bearing on the fate of fellow Nobel Peace Prize winner, Liu Xiaobo, jailed in China. China says it has full faith in Burma's so-called road map to democracy following the release of Aung San Suu Kyi. Foreign Ministry Hong spokesman Hong Lei Tuesday said Beijing is assured Burma's policies for stability and economic development will continue.
Hong says China is confident Burma will continue advancing its seven-point road map. He says China has every faith in Burma maintaining peace and stability as it promotes ethnic reconciliation and economic and social development. He did not specifically refer to Aung San Suu Kyi. The Foreign Ministry spokesman refused to answer any more questions from foreign correspondents about Liu's Nobel. 2008-01-11 - MFA AND SCHOLARS DESCRIBE CHINAS EFFORTS ON BURMA. Viewing cable 08BEIJING125, MFA AND SCHOLARS DESCRIBE CHINA'S EFFORTS ON BURMA Understanding cables Every cable message consists of three parts: The top box shows each cables unique reference number, when and by whom it originally was sent, and what its initial classification was.The middle box contains the header information that is associated with the cable.
It includes information about the receiver(s) as well as a general subject.The bottom box presents the body of the cable. The opening can contain a more specific subject, references to other cables (browse by origin to find them) or additional comment. This is followed by the main contents of the cable: a summary, a collection of specific topics and a comment section. To understand the justification used for the classification of each cable, please use this WikiSource article as reference. Discussing cables If you find meaningful or important information in a cable, please link directly to its unique reference number. 2008-01-18 - CHINESE LOSING PATIENCE WITH BURMA. Viewing cable 08RANGOON44, CHINESE LOSING PATIENCE WITH BURMA Understanding cables Every cable message consists of three parts: The top box shows each cables unique reference number, when and by whom it originally was sent, and what its initial classification was.The middle box contains the header information that is associated with the cable.
It includes information about the receiver(s) as well as a general subject.The bottom box presents the body of the cable. The opening can contain a more specific subject, references to other cables (browse by origin to find them) or additional comment. This is followed by the main contents of the cable: a summary, a collection of specific topics and a comment section. Discussing cables If you find meaningful or important information in a cable, please link directly to its unique reference number. Chinese perceptions of Myanmar in the Cablegate files. Sarkozy says Suu Kyi released after he spoke to China's Hu. PARIS, France - French President Nicolas Sarkozy said Tuesday that China had influenced the Myanmar junta's freeing of Nobel Peace laureate Aung San Suu Kyi because he spoke about her to Chinese President Hu Jintao. "On the freeing of Aung San Suu Kyi, the Chinese president helped me because I spoke about this person to Hu Jintao when he was visiting France in early November," Sarkzoy said in a television interview.
"The Chinese authorities had an influence on the Burmese junta because I spoke to (Hu) about it," he said. China has declined to comment on Myanmar's release of democracy icon Suu Kyi but said it hoped the country's military junta would proceed with its plans for eventual democracy. Suu Kyi was freed from house arrest Saturday, less than a week after an election that cemented the military junta's grip on power but was widely criticised by democracy activists and Western leaders as a sham. French energy giant Total is one of the largest foreign investors in Myanmar. Myanmar to construct railroad to link deep-sea port with China. YANGON, Oct. 16 (Xinhua) -- Myanmar has planned to construct a railroad that will link a deep-sea port, Kyaukphyu, in western Rakhine state with Kunming, southwest of China, the local Weekly Eleven News reported Saturday.
The Kyaukphyu-Kunming railroad, which is part of the Kyaukphyu- Ruili platform project and national railroad network, is targeted to be finished in 2015. The railroad will pass through Rakhine State, Magway Region, Mandalay Region and Shan State in Myanmar, the report said. The railroad project is divided into such sections as Kyaukphyu- Eann-Minbu, Minbu-Magway-Mandalay-Lashio-Muse and Muse-Jiegao trans-border railroad. After the project is implemented, Myanmar's Shan State and China's Yunnan province can be connected directly and the railroad will mainly facilitate the goods flow from China, the report said, adding that Magway and Mandalay regions will then become the main business towns.
B112 Chinas Myanmar Strategy Elections Ethnic Groups and Economics.ashx (Objet application/pdf) China’s relationship with Myanmar | Sinocentric. China weapons giant to mine Burma. One of China’s biggest weapons manufacturers is to begin developing a copper mine in central Burma after agreeing to terms with the Burmese government earlier this month. A statement on the website of the state-owned China North Industries Corp (or Norinco) said the project will serve the dual purpose of “strengthening the strategic reserves of copper resources in [China], and enhancing the influence of our country in Myanmar [Burma]”. Norinco also bills itself as an engineering company. At the beginning of June a top-level Chinese delegation, including prime minister Wen Jiabao, spent five days in Burma to ink a raft of new trade deals and mark the 60th anniversary of China-Burma diplomatic relations.
It was during this visit that Wen oversaw the agreement for Norinco to take charge of the Monywa mine in Sagaing division. China’s investments in Burma are soaring and will soon match those of Thailand and Singapore, the pariah state’s two main economic backers. China’s fears over Wa fighting grow. Beijing’s deployment of 5,000 troops to its shared border with Burma is the latest sign that the Chinese government is increasingly concerned about fighting between the Burmese junta and an ethnic Wa army. An outbreak of fighting in Shan state, where the United Wa State Army (UWSA) is based, would likely impact on the healthy border trade between the two countries. China is one of Burma’s principal economic allies, but has warned the ruling junta to maintain stability along the border.
This appears an increasingly unlikely prospect however as Burma amasses its troops close to the Wa territory, while the UWSA reinforces itself and readies for fighting. The 30,000-strong UWSA’s resistance to government proposals to transform into a border guard force has riled the ruling generals and caused hundreds of ethnic Wa to flee the region. Khun Hsai, editor of the Shan Herald Agency for News and an expert on the UWSA, told DVB that China “would assist” the Wa if fighting broke out. Chinese military bases in Myanmar : a myth.