Myanmar?s unsteady exit from China?s orbit eastasiaforum.org

When Myanmar?s military regime began opening up the country politically and economically in 2010, one motive was to alleviate the country?s overreliance on China. Ten years down the road, in the context of China?s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) and the threat of new Western sanctions triggered by human rights violations against the Muslim Rohingya minority, China?s influence appears hardly diminished.