(Mainly based on Ye Lin Thu’s posts from his facebook pages on 22 January 2024.)
Deciding the fate of poor Burma? |
Despite the worsening conflicts currently occurring in
Rakhine State, Communist China together with Myanmar is marching on strongly to
complete the 1,700-kilometer long China-Myanmar Economic Corridor connecting
Kunming in Yunnan province to the Indian Ocean. Kyauk Phyu port is the terminus
of that corridor ending (or starting) in the Bay of Bengal in Indian Ocean.
Irrawaddy Media
said that the deep seaport project is an important part of the Myanmar economic
agreement on the Trans-Burma Economic Corridor connecting the Indian Ocean to
the Kunmin City of land-locked Yunnan
State in Southern China. An official media conference was held recently after
signing an agreement for the Kyauk Phyu Deepsea Port Project.
Construction and development of the Deep Seaport and the Special Economic Zone (SEZ) is a joint venture between the China and Myanmar, and the Myanmar military government-backed Kyauk Phyu Special Economic Zone Management Committee is managing it.