The civil war raging in Myanmar between a China-backed military junta and a patchwork of pro-democracy rebels is intersecting with Cold War-style great power competition between Washington and Beijing. National Security Editor Guy Taylor sits down with Stimson Center senior fellow and leading East Asian geopolitics scholar Yun Sun for a wide-ranging discussion about all facets of Myanmar’s war, including the deep implications it carries for U.S. grand strategy in the Indo-Pacific and the relevance of China’s oil and gas pipelines cutting through the Southeast Asian nation formerly known as Burma.

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