The year 2017 was a momentous one for China in so far as regaining its ground in Myanmar is concerned. China not only leveraged its salience in the ongoing peace and reconciliation process but also took advantage of Myanmar’s difficulties with the UN and the Western countries on the Rohingya crisis. Further, Beijing was able […]
India Exports Diesel to Myanmar; Aims for Stronger Trade to Contain China
September 8, 2017 by
India has been bidding to strengthen socio-economic ties with Myanmar as part of its ‘Act East’ policy but its latest overtures are being viewed as tactics largely aimed at containing Chinese influence. NEW DELHI (Sputnik) — India has dispatched the first consignment of diesel to Myanmar ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s two-day official visit […]
Connectivity with Myanmar — the wait gets longer
August 26, 2016 by
Building a project in Myanmar was and is difficult. But, is it so difficult that the connectivity proposals mooted by Delhi early in the last decade will remain a dream or at best half complete? Exactly the same happened to proposals to connect the north-eastern States and ASEAN through Myanmar. The trilateral India-Myanmar-Thailand (IMT) highway […]
Indian government to promote private investment in Myanmar
March 3, 2015 by
NEW DELHI: Hoping to give more teeth to its Act East Policy, the Modi government has decided to expand India’s economic links with Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar and Vietnam (CLMV) by promoting private sector investments in these countries through a project development company. his announcement was made by Finance Minister Arun Jaitley while presenting the annual […]
