China's foreign minister meets junta chief in Myanmar, vows support

Senior Gen Min Aung Hlaing, head of the military council, exchanges gift with Chinese Foreign Minister Qin Gang during their meeting on May 1. - Military True News Information Team via AP

YANGON (AFP): China's foreign minister met Myanmar's junta chief in Naypyidaw on Tuesday (May 2), officials said, the highest-ranking Chinese official to meet the country's top general since a coup more than two years ago.

Myanmar has been riven by violence since the putsch that ousted Aung San Suu Kyi's government in February 2021.