The Influence of NGO on Sino-Myanmar Relations and Its Countermeasures under the Transformation of Political Democratization in Myanmar

Abstract

One of the effects of Myanmar's political democratization is the sudden emergence of NGOs. Taking advantage of Myanmar's political transformation, Western NGOs have been able to enter Myanmar on a large scale, and local NGOs in Myanmar have also developed rapidly. In addition to carrying out traditional public welfare undertakings, Western NGOs and local NGOs in Myanmar have gradually deepened their involvement and interference in Myanmar's domestic and foreign affairs, focusing on the friendly and stable Sino-Myanmar relations. On the basis of material and intellectual support from western countries, under the inducement of western NGO values diplomacy, and under the catalysis of domestic nationalism, the influence of local NGOs in Myanmar is increasing, which poses a real threat to Sino-Myanmar relations and China's interests in Myanmar. In this regard, China can adopt value equivalence diplomacy, cultivate local international NGOs, support domestic NGOs to go abroad, and strengthen the research and contact with domestic NGOs in Myanmar, so as to ease and optimize the Sino-Myanmar relations under the double attack of western NGOs and local NGOs in Myanmar.