The case of CMEC and other Chinese business activities in Myanmar show how exposed China is to escalating conflict risks, and offer insight to the role it is playing in the ongoing civil war.

cutting off resources like electricity and supply chains to force compliance. But with rising instability in Myanmar, China's bet could turn out to be a double-edged sword.

Beijing’s claims to prioritize sovereignty and noninterference mask its true strategic ambition: regional hegemony.

Both the great powers want access to Rakhine State’s Indian coastline and their ambitions have not ended because of advances by the Arakan Army.

On the ground, we know that, under the China-Myanmar Economic Corridor, Beijing has planned a series of economic cooperation projects with the NLD government. This is not to say that the military ...