Chinese conundrum in raging Myanmar

The complexity of the societal tinderbox in Myanmar has always been shortchanged for simplistic binaries of “pro-China” or “pro-India” assumptions, whereas the realities have been layered and unobvious. Lazy perceptions that Myanmar’s junta rule (1962-2011 or till 2015 with a dummy civilian Government) was a Chinese borough or, that post-2015 till the 2021 coup, Aung San Suu Kyi’s NLD Government was decidedly “pro-India” are bereft of subtleties and underlying dynamics at play.

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