Asean’s Myanmar plan deserves support: Global Times contributor

Police vehicles barricade a road outside the Sule Pagoda, next to the Yangon City Hall in Yangon on Feb 16, 2021. - AFP

BEIJING (Global Times): Chinese State Councillor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi recently said that China supports Asean to play an active role in the Myanmar issue in his phone calls with Indonesian Foreign Minister Retno Marsudi and Brunei's Second Minister of Foreign Affairs Erywan bin Pehin Yusof.

Why has China supported an "Asean way" to solve the Myanmar conundrum? And what signal is China sending with it?