AFP – Myanmar junta chief Min Aung Hlaing will travel to China this week, both countries said yesterday, in his first known trip there since the 2021 coup.
Min Aung Hlaing will travel to the southwestern city of Kunming to attend a two-day summit of the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS) – a group including China, Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, Vietnam and Cambodia.
A statement from the Myanmar junta yesterday said Min Aung Hlaing “will meet and discuss with government officials of China on the friendship between the governments and people of the two countries, to develop and strengthen economic and multi-sectoral cooperation”.
China also confirmed that the leader of Myanmar would attend the summit.
“Against a background of a weakening global recovery and geopolitical turbulence, the need to strengthen unity and cooperation, and to focus on development and prosperity, are becoming more prominent,” Foreign Ministry spokesperson Mao Ning said yesterday.
