CURRENT AFFAIRS

Detailed explanation-1: -China-Myanmar Economic Corridor (CMEC) is a number of infrastructure projects supporting connectivity between Myanmar and China. It is an economic corridor of the Belt and Road Initiative.

Detailed explanation-2: -China is providing extensive aid and helping to develop industries and infrastructure in Myanmar and aims to be the chief beneficiary from cultivating Myanmar’s extensive oil and natural gas reserves.

Detailed explanation-3: -The China–Myanmar border is the international border between the territory of the People’s Republic of China and Myanmar (formerly Burma). The border is 2, 129 km (1, 323 mi) in length and run from the tripoint with India in the north to the tripoint with Laos in the south.

Detailed explanation-4: -Myanmar is situated in Southeast Asia and is bordered on the north and north-east by China, on the east and south-east by Laos and Thailand, on the south by the Andaman Sea and the Bay of Bengal and on the west by Bangladesh and India.