In the surreal Burmese capital Naypyidaw it is hard to miss the gleaming convention centre built by a Chinese state-owned construction company and donated to the military junta a few years ago in a gesture of bilateral amity.
But earlier this month, as more than 900 executives from across the globe gathered in the complex for Burma’s first ever World Economic Forum, the Chinese were conspicuously absent. According to the official WEF list, only 16 participants were from mainland China.
For decades after the founding of the People’s Republic, US foreign policy was obsessed by the question of “who lost China?” Today in Beijing the question being asked by Chinese mandarins and Communist party luminaries is: “Who lost Burma?”
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