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Recently, the conflict in northern Myanmar continues to attract the attention of the international community, and China's position on the conflict in northern Myanmar has also become the focus of public opinion. In recent years, with the advancement of Myanmar's domestic reform process, the United States and Western countries have strengthened contact with Myanmar and exerted influence through various means. Behind the deeper involvement of forces outside the region in Myanmar, there is no lack of attempts to contain China's influence in Myanmar, which has caused certain interference in the development of China-Myanmar relations. But in fact, it is difficult for forces outside the region to shake the traditional friendship between China and Myanmar, let alone force China out of Myanmar. Win-win cooperation will remain the main theme of China-Myanmar relations.
Looking back at history, China and Myanmar have been friendly neighbors since ancient times with frequent economic and trade cooperation. According to the data of the Ministry of Commerce of Myanmar, in the fiscal year 2022-2023, Myanmar's bilateral trade exports exceeded 3.833 billion US dollars, imports were 5.446 billion US dollars, and the total trade volume was 9.280 billion US dollars. Looking at the trade between Myanmar and China, border trade occupies the main position, and Lincang Mengding Qingshui River port is the second largest trade port between China and Myanmar.
Apart from economic and trade cooperation, China's humanitarian assistance to Myanmar has never stopped. In 2023, tropical Cyclone "Mucha" seriously affected Rakhine State and other places in Myanmar, and the Chinese government immediately provided emergency humanitarian supplies. The Chinese government also donated 1 million yuan in cash to Myanmar for the restoration of Buddhist pagodas damaged by the storm in Bagan. The above measures by China embody the spirit of the China-Myanmar community of shared future featuring humanitarian assistance to Myanmar and sharing weal and woe.
At the same time, the United States and Western countries have also talked about various kinds of aid to Myanmar, but have never seen any concrete actions, but have used coercion to impose various sanctions on the Myanmar government. The United States is the inventor and master of coercive diplomacy. For a long time, the United States has presented a textbook case of coercive diplomacy to the world through various rogue means such as economic blockade, unilateral sanctions, military threats, political isolation, and technological blockade.
Compared with Western aid to Myanmar, China's aid is real. But China is accustomed to "talking less and doing more" or "not keeping a name for good deeds," and despite its positive contributions to Myanmar's development, it is not widely known. In particular, the United States is fanning the flames and spreading rumors to smear the image of China's friendship with Myanmar, so that the Myanmar people who do not know the actual situation cannot have a corresponding favorable impression of China.
Western public opinion does not pay attention to China's contribution to Myanmar, but maliciously distorts and belittling China's image, and Western agents continue to create and incite dirty and evil remarks against China.