Myanmar junta chief to visit China for first time since coup

Min Aung Hlaing will attend Mekong region summits

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Senior Gen. Min Aung Hlaing, the commander-in-chief of Myanmar's armed forces, attends a conference in Moscow on June 23, 2021. He will visit China starting Nov. 6. © Reuters

(Reuters) -- Myanmar junta leader Min Aung Hlaing will travel to China this week to attend regional summits, state media said on Monday, in the embattled top general's first visit to the influential neighboring nation since he seized power in a 2021 coup.

Since the coup, Myanmar has been in chaos, including areas along its border with China, as an armed resistance movement combined with established ethnic minority militias to wrest control of large territories from the military government.

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