Wednesday, November 30, 2011
''China-Myanmar ties challenged by US moves''
from china's people daily....
"For centuries , the two peoples have traveled freely across the border on dirt roads and forested mountains . Chinese late foreign minister Marshal Chen Yi composed a poem which reads , "I (China ) am upstream and you (Myanmar ) are downstream . We share water from the same river with friendship ."
Today , Myanmar is the pivot of China 's grand strategy to achieve its economic growth goal .
The development of Western China depends on a secured shorter trade and fuel routes to the ocean . Close to the key shipping lanes of the Indian Ocean and Southeast Asia , Myanmar is important for China to develop its southwestern inland provinces , which have a population of about 200 million people".........READ MORE
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