A Chinese Pipeline is Prolonging Myanmar’s War | GSSR

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Chinese-built natural gas and oil pipelines in Myanmar are contributing to the prolongation of the civil war by supporting ongoing energy infrastructure, with implications for regional security and politics.

Chinese-built energy infrastructure is prolonging the civil war in Myanmar, writes Small Wars Journal’s Hayden Weatherall in a recently published article for the Georgetown Security Studies Review.  How?  The PRC built a natural gas pipeline from the Myanmar port city of Kyaukphyu to the PRC border in 2013 and followed it up with a sister oil pipeline in 2017, ensuring … Read more The post A Chinese Pipeline is Prolonging Myanmar’s War | GSSR appeared first on Small Wars Journal by Arizona State University.