FM's Myanmar visit indicative of China's resolve to renew friendship
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Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi arrived in Myanmar on Tuesday for an official visit at the invitation of his counterpart Aung San Suu Kyi, as a sign of China's active approach to improving its ties with Myanmar.
Wang's tour indicates China's undaunted resolve and readiness to renew the bilateral friendship and promote pragmatic cooperation with Myanmar's new administration.
As the first Chinese foreign minister to visit the Southeast Asian nation after Myanmar's power transfer in the wake of the country's general elections last November, Wang is expected in his two-day visit to meet Myanmar's high-level officials and reiterate China's confidence in the promising prospect of bilateral exchanges.
The tour comes in part as a result of recent goodwill gestures extended by leaders of the two countries.
Soon after Suu Kyi became Myanmar's foreign minister in late March, Wang sent a congratulatory message on her appointment, vowing to enhance the two nation's collaboration and bring tangible benefits to the two peoples, a lasting goal of the comprehensive strategic cooperative partnership.
For her part, Suu Kyi, in her debut visit to China last June, has impressed the Chinese with her legendary history and personal charisma, and more reassuringly, her thorough understanding of the China-Myanmar brotherly bonds, as well as her commitment to maintaining the friendly ties.
These positive gestures carry more strategic significance than ever, since changes in Myanmar's political spectrum once strained bilateral relations. Several major investments of China in Myanmar, including a dam and a copper mine, were brought to a standstill.
Last May saw further discord as Myanmar shells fell into China's southwest Yunnan Province, causing casualties and damage.
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