China's Myanmar Policy: Dilemma or Strategic Ambiguity?

Bernt Berger

2 March 2015

This brief discusses China’s problem of how to deal with ethnic Chinese irredentist groups involved in the ongoing ethnic conflict in Myanmar’s Shan State along the Chinese border. The author states the failure of Beijing to diffuse suspicions of Chinese support for such groups and to rein in local actors could undermine China's relations with Myanmar and its neighborhood policy more generally.

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Institute for Security and Development Policy (ISDP), Nacka, Sweden