A research paper, ‘China’s Overseas Humanitarian Action to Aid Refugees’, published in July last year by the Royal Institute of International Affairs in London, known as Chatham House, showed that China is slowly Is adopting a policy of increasing humanitarian assistance for But this is mainly through UN agencies and bilateral diplomatic relations. The study made this conclusion by analyzing a decade of refugee aid data from 2012 to 2021. It can be seen that he has given his support many times to United Nations Organization for Palestine, Afghanistan, Syria, Cameroon, Burundi, Sudan, Congo. Niger, Iraq etc. did not provide any aid for the Rohingyas except four lakh dollars once in 2020.
The US, UK, EU countries, Japan and Australia have been vocal in playing a political role internationally on the question of recognition of Rohingya citizenship, safe return with human dignity and accountability for Myanmar’s brutal persecution. Government and Army. In contrast, China, Russia and India did not support the condemnation of Myanmar by the UN Security Council or any concrete international action against it. Veto-wielding China and Russia have repeatedly opposed any resolution against Myanmar in the Security Council.
In 2017, most democratic countries, including the US and the European Union, imposed sanctions against several top generals, including Myanmar’s army chief Min Aung Hlaing, and businesses run by the military in the wake of the 2017 Rohingya genocide and persecution. The scope of restrictions was extended after the military rule was imposed after the elections in 2021.
At the same time, Myanmar’s army chief General Hlaing went on official visits to China, Russia and India and bought weapons and equipment from those three countries. Sweden’s Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) conducts regular research on the world arms trade. According to SIPRI’s Trends in International Arms Transfer 2022 report published in March 2023, 42 percent of Myanmar’s arms purchases from 2018 to 2022 came from Russia, 29 percent from China and 14 percent from India.
