the topic of the presentation is the China Factors on Myanmar that focus on the China-Myanmar Relations history and analysis on current challenges among the Burmese.
2. Discussion Points
Part One
• History Background
Part Two
• China – Myanmar Relations (Foreign Policy, Economy and
Peace Process)
Forward Looking
3. History Background
U Nu’s Era (Parliamentary Democracy)
General Ne Win’s Era (Revolutionary Council,
BSPP)
Than Shwe’s Era (SLORC, SPDC)
4. China Leaders’ Profiles
Mao Zedong (1893 – 1976)
Chou Enlai (1898 – 1976)
Deng Xiaoping (1904 – 1997)
Founder of China
Developer of China
5. Second Line Leaders
Jiang Zemin (1926 – )
Hu Jintao (1942 – )
Xi Jinping (1953 – )
6. Great Event of China
1911 Revolution
1912 Nationalist Party (Kuomintang)
1921 Chinese Communist Party (CPC)
1949 PRC
1949 – 54 Power Struggle b/t Red and White
China
1956 Hundred Flowers Campaign
1958 Great Leap Forward
1966 Cultural Revolution
1978 Economic Reform
1989 Tiananmen Square Protests
1990 Economic Development
7. China – Myanmar Issues
Burma was the first non-communist country to
recognize the Communist-led People’s Republic of
China after its foundation in 1949.
Peaceful Coexistence Treaty (U Nu’s Era)
Kuomintang (KMT) Chinese Nationalist troops in
Burma (1950)
1967 Communal Violence between Chinese and
Burmese in Burma.
Relation between Communist Party of Burma and
CPCCPB leader: ThakinThan
Tun
8. Myanmar Issues
U Nu Regime :
Parliamentary Democracy (State Capitalism)
Struggle to become developmental state (Pyidawthar
Project)
Ne Win (Military regime)
Civil Wars (CPB and Ethnic Armed groups)
Isolationism (by economically)
1988 Mass Protests (8888 Uprising)
The Fall of BSPP
1989 April 16 (The Fall of CPB)
9. Domino Effects
1989 Fall of Berlin Wall (end of cold war)
1989 Tiananmen Square Protests in China
11. China – Myanmar Issues
China (PRC)
China Economic Reform: Four Modernization (1978)
Special Economic Zones and Industrial Zones
Economic Liberalization (Deng Xiaoping's Model)
Not Gorbachev’s Model
Myanmar Military regime
Introduction to Market Economy
De facto government
Chinese influence on Myanmar (Political, Military,
Economical – trade, technology, investment,
manufacturing, production, extractive industry,
services and products)
12. Impacts
Yunnan Province developed (land lock region)
Gained from Natural Resources, Energy
Area of drug trafficking
Border Trade development
Energy Sources (Dams)
Global Power Struggle (China – USA – India)
Sino – Myanmar Oil and Gas Pipeline
Money Laundering (from black to white money)
Supporter of Ethnic Armed Groups (Peace issue)
Geo-political issues (two – oceans occupied)
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18. In the periods of Transitional regimes
Myit-sone Dam issue (The project is suspended) 2017
Letpadaung Copper Mine Protest (2012 – 2013)
Jade mine in Kachin
Kyuk-Phyu Special Economic Zone
NYDC
Rakhine Crisis
Global Power China (Nationalist China)
Belt and Road initiative (the string of Pearl’s
Strategy)
Chinese Cultural Fever
Debt Trap
19. Looking Forward
Great Country and Great Nation
(9.5 million square km, 1.3 billion, 5000 years)
The history background of Sino-Burmese wars in ancient history
Big Brother influential relation
China – Myanmar Border (2129 km) (Geo-political issues)
(security, population, economy)
Production and Manufacturing oriented country (CHINA)
Nationalist China’s Leader (Xi Jinping) Xiplomacy !!
2019 (PRC – 70th years anniversary)
2021 (CPC – 100th years anniversary)
20. Questions and Discussion
Reference
Modern China – Myanmar Relation, Dilemma of Mutual
Dependence, David I. Steinberg and Hongwel Fan, Nordic
Institute of Asian Studies, 2012
The Name of Pauk-Phaw, Myanmar’s China Policy Since 1948,
Maung Aung Myoe
Burma in Revolt: Opium and Insurgency Since 1948, Bertil
Litner, 1999
The Rise and Fall of the Communist Party of Burma (CPB),
Bertil Lintner, Issue 6 of Southeast Asia Program series, Cornell
University, 1990
China History (Sources from internet)