For over 2,000 years, the history of Myanmar has been written in the shadow of the giant to the north. From the Pyu city-states sending tribute to the Tang court, to the Konbaung kings holding off Qing invasions in the 1760s, our ancestors understood a fundamental truth: Myanmar must be the bamboo that bends with […] The post Managed chaos: China’s game plan for a broken Myanmar appeared first on Asia Times .