Myanmar junta chief meets China's Xi for first time: state media

Chinese President Xi Jinping meeting Myanmar leader Min Aung Hlaing on the sidelines of the celebrations marking the 80th anniversary of the victory in the Soviet Union's Great Patriotic War in Moscow, Russia on May 9, 2025. -Xinhua

BANGKOK: Myanmar's junta chief met China's president for the first time since seizing power, state media reported Saturday (May 10), the highest-level meeting with a key ally for the internationally sanctioned military leader.

Senior General Min Aung Hlaing led a military coup in 2021 overthrowing Myanmar's brief experiment with democracy and plunging the nation into civil war.