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Warmer China-Myanmar economic ties risk future unrest

Content type:: Expert Briefings
Location:: CHINA/MYANMAR
Keywords associated with this article:: Geographic: Myanmar China AP CHINA/MYANMAR

Topical: international relations construction energy ethnic foreign investment foreign policy foreign trade gas infrastructure oil opposition protest security
ISSN:: 2633-304X
Citation:: Oxford Analytica (2017), "Warmer China-Myanmar economic ties risk future unrest", Expert Briefings.
https://doi.org/10.1108/OXAN-DB220229

Wednesday, April 12, 2017

Significance

Most notable are those on the China-Myanmar oil pipeline and the Kyaukphyu Special Economic Zone (SEZ).

Impacts

Continuation of the Myitsone dam impasse will compound Myanmar’s shortfall of electricity generation capacity.
Resuming Chinese megaprojects in Myanmar risks more protests, with the NLD government caught between China and Myanmar’s people.
The next test of Myanmar’s ethnic minorities peace process will be at the next Panglong peace talks in May.

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