{"id":462,"date":"2026-05-30T07:41:03","date_gmt":"2026-05-30T07:41:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reliablemovingcrews.com\/?p=462"},"modified":"2026-05-30T07:41:03","modified_gmt":"2026-05-30T07:41:03","slug":"myanmars-junta-chief-turned-president-heads-to-india-with-an-eye-on-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reliablemovingcrews.com\/?p=462","title":{"rendered":"Myanmar&#8217;s junta chief turned president heads to India, with an eye on China"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li>Summary<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>BANGKOK, May 30 (Reuters) &#8211; Less than two months after he completed a carefully engineered transition from Myanmar&#8217;s \u200bjunta chief to become president, Min Aung Hlaing will fly to India on an official visit on Saturday, his first overseas visit \u200csince taking the civilian role.<\/div>\n<div>The five-day trip, during which the former general will hold talks with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, underscores the gradual return of regional re-engagement for Myanmar, five years after many of its neighbours shunned the Southeast Asian nation&#8217;s military leadership following a coup.<\/div>\n<div>For India, the visit is an opportunity to dilute China&#8217;s outsized influence \u200bon Myanmar while working to secure access to the country&#8217;s deposits of critical rare earths, and bolster security along its northeastern borders, analysts \u200bsaid.<\/div>\n<h2>SEARCH FOR IMPROVED REGIONAL RELATIONS<\/h2>\n<div>&#8220;After changing into civilian clothes as president, Min Aung Hlaing is looking to boost diplomatic \u2060engagement across the region,&#8221; said Richard Horsey, senior Myanmar adviser at Crisis Group.<\/div>\n<div>&#8220;He expects more normal ties with ASEAN,&#8221; Horsey added, referring to the grouping \u200bof 11 southeast Asian countries, &#8220;with support from Thailand and some other member states. He is also likely to visit Beijing soon to meet Xi Jinping. India \u200bis Myanmar&#8217;s other key neighbour.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div>An official from Myanmar&#8217;s presidential office, reached via phone, declined to comment on the visit.<\/div>\n<div>Indian foreign ministry spokesman Randhir Jaiswal told reporters on Friday: &#8220;All issues that form part of the gamut of relations between Myanmar and India will come up for discussion.&#8221;<\/div>\n<h2>JUNTA WAS DIPLOMATICALLY ISOLATED<\/h2>\n<div>In a dawn takeover on February 1, 2021, Min Aung \u200bHlaing ousted the elected civilian government led by Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi, sparking a protest movement that transformed into a nationwide \u200barmed uprising against the military.<\/div>\n<div>The coup drew widespread condemnation, including from the ASEAN bloc that barred Myanmar&#8217;s generals from its summits, and the new military-led administration found itself \u200cincreasingly isolated.<\/div>\n<div>A devastating \u2060earthquake last year provided a diplomatic opening for Min Aung Hlaing, who made a rare visit to a regional summit in Bangkok, which he is seeking to build on following a widely criticised election that paved the way for his presidency.<\/div>\n<div>&#8220;He is seeking more and more regional and international respectability post-election,&#8221; said Gautam Mukhopadhaya, a former Indian ambassador to Myanmar.<\/div>\n<h2>FRONTIER AREA OFFENSIVES<\/h2>\n<div>Although long backed by Beijing, which has a range of investments in Myanmar, Min Aung Hlaing&#8217;s move to \u200btravel to India for his first overseas \u200bvisit would in part be \u2060to counter China&#8217;s deep influence, analysts said.<\/div>\n<div>&#8220;This has been part of Myanmar&#8217;s way of dealing with India and China, capitulating more to China and trying to sort of balance it with India,&#8221; said Mukhopadhaya.<\/div>\n<div>The visit comes as Myanmar&#8217;s military \u200bhas launched renewed offensives in a frontier area where the rare-earth deposits are found as well as other vital \u200btrade routes into \u2060India and Thailand.<\/div>\n<div>&#8220;Min Aung Hlaing will almost certainly seek India&#8217;s help in countering the Arakan Army and Chin armed groups,&#8221; Horsey said, referring to rebels fighting the military in Myanmar&#8217;s Chin state, which borders India, and nearby Rakhine state.<\/div>\n<div>India, on its part, has been interested in finding a way to access Myanmar&#8217;s resources, including \u2060working to \u200bobtain mineral samples with the assistance of a powerful rebel group, Reuters has reported.<\/div>\n<div>&#8220;The bottom line behind \u200bthis visit from the Indian side is what they can get out of it in terms of raw materials, rare earths (and) business propositions,&#8221; Mukhopadhaya said.<\/div>\n<div>&#8220;And that&#8217;s exactly what the Myanmar military \u200bwants, because it wants its military enterprises strengthened.&#8221;<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/reliablemovingcrews.com\/?p=460\">Trump in excellent health with leg swelling, hand bruising, doctor says<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/reliablemovingcrews.com\/?p=458\">Exclusive: From lottery draws to fiscal spending, China broadens digital yuan footprint<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/reliablemovingcrews.com\/?p=456\">Pentagon chief sounds \u2018alarm\u2019 over China\u2019s buildup, urges allies to boost defence spend<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Less than two months after he completed a carefully engineered transition from Myanmar&#8217;s \u200bjunta chief to become president, Min Aung Hlaing will fly to India on an official visit on Saturday, his first overseas visit \u200csince taking the civilian role.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":461,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[8],"class_list":["post-462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-china"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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