Defying Beijing: Societal Resistance to the Belt and Road in Myanmar
Debby Chan, "Defying Beijing: Societal Resistance to the Belt and Road in Myanmar"
English | ISBN: 1760466352 | 2024 | 298 pages | EPUB, PDF | 2 MB + 4 MB
English | ISBN: 1760466352 | 2024 | 298 pages | EPUB, PDF | 2 MB + 4 MB
The Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) aims to construct a Sino-centric transcontinental infrastructure network in Asia, Europe, Africa and beyond. Within this initiative, the China-Myanmar Economic Corridor (CMEC) is a vital strategic component. The shortcut to the Indian Ocean seeks to improve China's energy security and facilitate trade. Defying Beijing: Societal Resistance to the Belt and Road in Myanmar shows how Myanmar was able to capitalise on Chinese BRI ambitions to achieve its own desired outcomes during the country's political liberalisation in the 2010s. Belying the asymmetrical relationship between these two nations, the Myitsone hydropower dam was suspended, the Letpadaung copper mine's contract was renegotiated, and the Kyaukphyu deep seaport project was downsized. China offered concessions to Myanmar instead of pressuring it to honour those signed agreements. Contrasting a common proposition that US-Myanmar rapprochement disrupted the BRI projects in Myanmar,
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