U Nu presents a cheque to President Eisenhower for the families of Americans who fell in Burma in the Second World War. (Wikimedia Commons)
U Nu presents a cheque to President Eisenhower for the families of Americans who fell in Burma in the Second World War. (Wikimedia Commons)

The US, China and the ‘tender gourd’

Public exchanges between the US and Chinese embassies in Yangon have echoes from the Cold War that test Myanmar’s neutralist stance.

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