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    Strong Pauk-Phaw Friendship

    Jan 30, 2020 4 minutes
    By Wen Qing
    Copyedited by Madhusudan Chaubey

    On January 17 when many Chinese were busy preparing for the Spring Festival, President Xi Jinping embarked on his first overseas trip of 2020 to neighboring Myanmar.

    Xi is the first Chinese president to visit Myanmar in 19 years. He was warmly welcomed, with a fighter jet escort and a grand reception ceremony at the airport. During their meetings, the leaders of both countries expressed willingness to consolidate the bilateral pauk-phaw friendship and deepen pragmatic cooperation. In the Myanmar language, pauk-phaw means siblings from the same mother.

    High-level friendly exchanges set the tone for future stable development of bilateral ties. With the implementation of the Belt

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