Acknowledgements                                   ix
Author Notes                                       x
Introduction                                       xvii
      Conceptions and Misconceptions
      Sino-Burmese Pre-Independence
      Relations: An Overview
      Scope of the Study
  Part I The Vicissitudes of Sino-Burmese          3   (152)
  Relations During the Cold War Prelude:
  Setting the Stage
    1 Sino-Burmese Relations 1949-1953:            10  (18)
    Suspicions and Equivocations
      The Ideological Context of Sino-Burmese
      Relations
      The Establishment of Diplomatic Relations
      Tentative Contacts: 1950-1953
      Analysis of Early Sino-Burmese Relations
    2 China-Burma Ties in 1954: The Beginning      28  (13)
    of the Pauk Phaw Era
      International Factors
      China's Policy Toward Burma
      Burma's Policy Toward China
      Personalized Political Relations in 1954
      Economic Relations in 1954
    3 The Honeymoon Period: 1955-1966              41  (52)
      The U Nu Period
      The Ne Win Period (1962-1967)
      Economic Relations 1955-1966
      Cultural Relations 1955-1966
    4 The Anti-Chinese Riots of 1967: The          93  (26)
    Rupture of the Pauk Phaw Ties
      The "6.26" Anti-Chinese Riots
      Wrestling between Beijing and Rangoon
      The Impact of the Anti-Chinese Riots
      Causes of the Anti-Chinese Riots
    5 From Rift to Renormalization of              119 (12)
    Relations: 1967-1971
      The Renormalization of Sino-Burmese
      Relations
      Causes of the Renormalization of
      Sino-Burmese Relations
      The Context of China-U.S.-Soviet
      Triangular Relations
    6 Sino-Burmese Ties: The Cicatrized            131 (24)
    Sino-Burmese Relationship 1972-1988
      Political Relations
      Economic Relations
      Decline of Burmese Status in Chinese
      Diplomacy
  Part II The Challenges of China-Myanmar          155 (114)
  Relations in the Post-Cold War Era Prelude
    7 China-Myanmar Strategic and Security         162 (46)
    Relations
      Energy Issues: Gas, Oil, and
      Hydroelectric Power
      Myanmar and Mineral Resources Security in
      China
    8 China-Myanmar Economic and Trade Relations   208 (61)
      China-Myanmar Trade
      China-Myanmar Border Trade
      Chinese Development Assistance, and
      Economic and Technical Cooperation
      China's Investments in Myanmar
      China-Myanmar Economic Relations in the
      Context of Regional and Subregional
      Cooperation
      Yunnan-Myanmar Economic Relations
      Cross-Border Tourism
      Chinese Migration into Myanmar
  Part III Sino-Burmese Relations within the
  International Power Context
    9 Regional Impacts: Narcotics, Transport,      269 (37)
    and the Military in Sino-Myanmar Relations
      Narcotics in the China-Myanmar Nexus
      China's "Look South": The Sino-Myanmar
      Transport Corridor
      The Military Factor
    10 International Strategic Issues              306 (41)
      Chinese Strategy in Myanmar
      China-India: Myanmar as Nexus
      Sino-Myanmar Cooperation and Japanese
      Concerns
      "The Burden of Proximity" Thailand
      The United States Burma Policy: "The
      Luxury of Distance"
      The Role of International Organizations:
      The United Nations and ASEAN
      Sino-Myanmar Relations and International
      Responses
  Part IV Conclusions
    11 Dilemmas of Mutual Dependence in a          347 (34)
    Globalized World
      China's Dilemmas: Internal and External
      Myanmar's Five Dilemmas
      U.S. Dilemmas
      Regional Actors
      Chinese-Myanmar Relations under
      "Discipline-Flourishing Democracy"
      Coda
  Appendices
      1 Joint Statement Concerning Framework       381 (4)
      Document on Future Cooperation in
      Bilateral Relations between the People's
      Republic of China and Federation of
      Myanmar
      2 People's Republic of China Plans and       385 (5)
      Strategies Mentioned in the Text
      3 Chronology of Sino-Burmese Relations       390 (29)
      4 Major Chinese Companies in Myanmar         419 (11)
      5 Joint Statement Between The Republic of    430 (3)
      the Union of Myanmar and The People's
      Republic of China on Establishing a
      Comprehensive Strategic Cooperative
      Partnership
      6 Summary: "Peking and the Burmese           433 (6)
      Communists: The Perils and Profits of
      Insurgency."Secret (later declassified)
      CIA Report, 1971
About the Authors                                  439 (2)
Bibliography                                       441 (31)
Index                                              472