A post from the archives
January 1978
The first Chinese leader to visit Myanmar
This video shows the highlights of Deng Xiaoping's visit to Rangoon in January 1978.
Deng Xiaoping was the first Chinese leader to visit Myanmar; Zhou Enlai had visited several times as Premier, but not Mao Zedong or Hua Guofeng. For more than a decade, China had been providing strong support to the Communist Party of Burma insurgency based in Pangsang. But, by 1978, China was keen to build closer economic and political ties with the Burma Socialist Programme Party government of...
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The aim of this website is to promote interest in Myanmar's amazing history.Our hope is to challenge the often two-dimensional and uncritical views of history taught in Myanmar by reexamining key periods in the country's past. We would like as well to reveal the rich multicultural nature of Myanmar's history and its deep and ongoing ties to global events and trends.Finally, this website will also delve into the history of neighbouring regions, such as Yunnan in China and the Northeast in India, in the hope of introducing these places to a Myanmar audience.We believe that meeting Myanmar's many challenges today will require fresh imaginative thinking. This is turn will only be possible with a clear and critical understanding of Myanmar and global history.