Analysis

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.

Claims that Beijing’s pressure on ethnic armed organizations has defused the Spring Revolution could not be further from the truth.   

Junta accused of ‘systematically eliminating’ country’s democratic politicians after former Mandalay chief minister Dr. Zaw Myint Maung dies in detention.

Ethnic army is tightening the noose on junta-allied BGF and militia forces that control territory on the border with China.

Analysts examine the reasons for the Myanmar junta’s repeated bombing of civilian targets in the northern Shan State capital.