Analysis

Beijing's ineffective border “blockade” and a few advanced Chinese weapons cannot mask the regime’s recruitment crisis.

Military analyst Aye Chan Hsu argues that the Arakan Army is close to strangling regime power in Rakhine State.

China’s establishment of a joint venture security company with the junta to safeguard BRI projects in Myanmar shows it no longer believes the regime can protect them.

Beijing backs controversial poll plan while ignoring ASEAN’s consensus on halting junta violence against civilians.

Experts say Min Aung Hlaing hopes to weaponize Beijing’s plans for a railroad through Myanmar against ethnic armies and rebels who hold much of the territory.

Beijing has targeted anti-regime forces with threats and a blockade, but its intervention has likely come too late to rescue the junta.

The recent arrest of former dictator Than Shwe’s son-in-law marks the latest chapter in an old story of insecurity and brutality among the country’s military leaders.

Ahead of Min Aung Hlaing’s trip to China, a number of former military intelligence men visited Beijing on behalf of a shadowy ‘think tank’.

Reports of invitation from Beijing trigger dismay among military supporters who accuse China of waging proxy war against Myanmar.

Although breakthroughs like those in northern Shan State have not occurred along the Thai border in Southern Myanmar, resistance forces are making steady progress.