One of the most intractable issues on Washington's foreign policy agenda is figuring out how to induce Burma's harsh military junta to respect the ...

Three hard facts are setting the boundaries for the talks United Nations negotiator Ibrahim Gambari is undertaking as he shuttles between Burma's ruling generals and the detained opposition leader ...

We want to bridge divides to reach everyone. It's time for Beijing to withdraw its blanket diplomatic support for this brutal regime. Chinese embassies and consulates from New York to New Zealand ...

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 Chinese started building the last, and most difficult, link in the Burma road in December 1937. It is now completed. It follows the old trail which Marco Polo traveled when he visited the Middle ...

CHINA: Burma Dilemma. 3 minute read. ... 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 ...