It is the powerful authoritarian neighbor and the protective big brother of Burma. He has had to deal in recent days with the coup d’état of Min Aung Hlaing and the shutdown of the democratic transition. From there to say that the Chinese regime has pushed for a putsch and that it is satisfied with the new situation would be going very quickly to work and shortcuts. China-Burma relations remain too marked by mistrust, duplicity and alliances of circumstances.
Admittedly the state media competed in euphemisms to describe the coup, evoking a “Major cabinet reshuffle” or a “Adjustment of the unbalanced power structure” to explain the replacement of civilian ministers by military. Traditionally resistant to any interference in …
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