China has continued its efforts to help Myanmar’s ruling junta in its civil war against pro-democracy forces in the country.
After facilitating, in January 2025, a ceasefire agreement between the junta and an ethnically Chinese rebel group, the Myanmar National Democratic Alliance Army (MNDAA), in April 2025 Beijing “sent a team to Myanmar to monitor” the ceasefire deal to make sure it was holding.
Reportedly, “some junta officials have returned to Lashio” – the site of an important junta headquarters that the MNDAA had captured when it was still fighting against the junta forces.
Besides the pro-democracy National Unity Government of Myanmar, the junta is also fought by a large number of various rebel groups. The MNDAA was only one of them. While Beijing is incapable of ending the democratic forces’ resistance against the junta, it is doing what it can to weaken them by leveraging whatever influence it has with individual rebel groups.
Efforts Category: China’s Political and Economic Subversion vs the National Unity Government of Myanmar and its allies
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