{"id":79962,"date":"2021-02-03T09:56:48","date_gmt":"2021-02-03T04:26:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=79962"},"modified":"2021-03-27T13:22:26","modified_gmt":"2021-03-27T07:52:26","slug":"india-myanmar-relations-after-coup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/india-myanmar-relations-after-coup\/","title":{"rendered":"India- Myanmar relations after Coup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Synopsis:<\/strong> India has a deep security relationship with the Myanmar military. It is not in India&#8217;s interest to intervene in Myanmar&#8217;s politics.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Introduction <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Military rule has returned to Myanmar after a coup. Aung San Suu Kyi along with the political leadership has been detained by the Military.<\/p>\n<p>Similar events took place in Myanmar 30 years ago. However, India\u2019s reaction is going to be very different from its stand of 1989-90.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/the-modern-history-of-independent-myanmar\/\">Read more about modern Myanmar history and other details<\/a><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><strong>Why is India\u2019s reaction going to be different this time?<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<p>India gave a statement of deep concern over the developments in Myanmar. However, its reaction is going to be different from the past because of the following reasons:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Firstly, India\u2019s security relationship with the Myanmar military<\/strong> has become extremely close. Myanmar military assists India in securing the North East borders from insurgent groups.\n<ul>\n<li>In a recent visit to Myanmar, Indian counterparts met with both State Councillor Suu Kyi and Gen. Min Aung Hlaing. It signifies the equal importance of both for India.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Secondly,<\/strong> the\u00a0<strong>image of Ms. Suu Kyi as a democratic icon<\/strong> and Nobel peace laureate has been damaged. It is the result of her failure in stopping the Army\u2019s pogrom against Rohingya. Moreover, she defended the Army&#8217;s action.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Third,<\/strong> <strong>India has initiated numerous infrastructure and development projects<\/strong> with Myanmar. India sees this as the \u201cgateway to the East\u201d and ASEAN countries.\u00a0For example, the India Myanmar-Thailand trilateral highway and the Kaladan multi-modal transit transport network.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Fifthly<\/strong>, <strong>India wants to resolve the issue of Rohingya refugees<\/strong> that fled to Bangladesh and some still live in India.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Sixthly,<\/strong> there was a <strong>public uproar for India in 1990, to take a strong stand against Myanmar in the past. <\/strong>This is not the case in the present scenario.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>India enjoyed a balanced relationship with both civil and military till now. But after this coup, India\u2019s capacity to play both sides<\/strong> and maintain a relationship on both sides is now diminished.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/coup-in-myanmar-and-india-myanmar-bilateral-relations-explained\/\">Also read Coup in Myanmar and India-Myanmar bilateral relations explained<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Synopsis: India has a deep security relationship with the Myanmar military. It is not in India&#8217;s interest to intervene in Myanmar&#8217;s politics. Introduction Military rule has returned to Myanmar after a coup. Aung San Suu Kyi along with the political leadership has been detained by the Military. Similar events took place in Myanmar 30 years&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/india-myanmar-relations-after-coup\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">India- Myanmar relations after Coup<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1230,9],"tags":[1474,1333,1457],"class_list":["post-79962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-pm-daily-articles","category-public","tag-foreign_policy_india","tag-ir_0","tag-ir_02","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":22,"cached_at":""},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79962\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}