China's economic ties to Burma's rulers are strategically important for both sides. Annual bilateral trade, estimated at $1.1 billion—a huge figure, given Burma's total GDP of $9.6 billion—provides an ...

The best route to democracy in Burma is, paradoxically, through China - no friend of true democracy, but a nation with many needs and much power.

China belongs in the first category, while Burma belongs in the second. Regimes such as China's may deserve sustained criticism, but regimes such as Burma's deserve immediate intervention.

More than 1,100 American troops died building the road in what is now Myanmar. Today China and some in India see the long-neglected route as their lifeline.

THE fall of Canton last October deprived China of her last important port of entry for war materials from abroad. Thenceforth she would have to depend on the thin trickle of supplies which might elude ...

A section of the Burma Road building materials for the route were local stone and simple farm implements were used as tools. Zhao Yun/For China Daily Vital wartime lifeline built at considerable ...

The May 30 re-internment of Nobel laureate and democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi - by the State Peace and Development Council (SPDC), the military junta that rules Burma - has rightfully raised ...

The report: In London, the Foreign Office defended the British acquiescence of Japan’s demand that the Burma road be closed to munitions traffic for China.

From 1953 on, Burma would not even accept free technical aid from the U.S., partly because it did not think the U.S. had done enough to make Nationalist China pull its guerrilla armies out of the ...