Wpływ Chin na rozwój i transformację Mjanmy

Myanmar’s transformation and development and the China Model

During the times of Western sanctions on the military junta in Myanmar, China – one of the biggest and most dynamic economies in the world – became an attractive political and economic partner. Despite a history of difficult bilateral relations, by the time the regime in Naypyidaw commenced political transformation in 2011 and accelerated economic reforms, China was Myanmar’s main investor and trading partner and thus Beijing exercised extensive influence on the Burmese military regime.
However, there is another equally important but nevertheless implicit and less examined impact, which, perhaps unintentionally, China has had on Myanmar. That is, Myanmar has extensively utilized China’s model of post-socialist economic transformation and development in its own reform trajectory.