DHAKA: Aung San Suu Kyi, Myanmar’s opposition leader, is expected to begin her first visit to China on Wednesday, at a time of tension between the two countries.

Suu Kyi will meet President Xi Jinping and Premier Li Keqiang, but no other details have been provided, reports the BBC.

Relations between the countries have cooled in recent years, partly because of violence near their mutual border.

Myanmar has been fighting rebels in its eastern Kokang region, which borders China’s Yunnan province.

At least five people in Yunnan died in March when an aircraft from Myanmar dropped a bomb on a sugar cane field. China sent patrols to the border in response.

BDST: 1144 HRS, JUN 10, 2015
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