‘China Trying To Legitimise Junta; India Can Play Pivotal Role In Myanmar’ by StratNewsGlobal

More than four months after the military coup in Myanmar, the spiral of protests, violence, and deaths continue. The five-point consensus plan agreed upon by the 10-nation bloc ASEAN has gone nowhere with the Myanmarese junta dragging its feet over it on the pretext that conditions are not suitable. China, which has strategic and business interests in Myanmar, has been trying to legitimize the junta, says Bridget Welsh, Honorary Research Associate with the University of Nottingham Asia Research Institute, Malaysia. Earlier, when Aung San Suu Kyi was in prison, India had managed to find a neutral position while being a neighbor to Myanmar, she told StratNews Global. India can play a pivotal role in Myanmar as having an unstable, brutal, and coercive regime on its borders is not in India’s interest, she added. Listen in for more.

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