Silent Chinese companies weigh costs of Myanmar's growing chaos

Targeted violence intensifies as top investors consider future of business operations

MYANMAR coup protests China

Demonstrators outside the Chinese Embassy protest Beijing's response to the military coup in Yangon on Feb. 19. Chinese products have become key targets of boycott movements. © Reuters

RORY WALLACE, Contributing writer and GWEN ROBINSON, Nikkei Asia editor-at-large

YANGON/BANGKOK -- While many multinational companies have begun to publicly express their opposition to the military coup and subsequent violence in Myanmar, Chinese companies -- Myanmar's largest investors -- have stayed silent even as Beijing reportedly ordered its state enterprises to evacuate nonessential staff.

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