2 juin 2010 - Le Premier ministre chinois Wen Jiabao a commencé une visite officielle à la Birmanie, le mercredi. Le voyage du premier ministre marque le 60e anniversaire des relations diplomatiques entre la Birmanie et la Chine. Il est le premier dirigeant de haut niveau de la Chine à se rendre en Birmanie après la visite de l'ancien président Jiang Zemin en 2001.
Le journal The Irrawaddy a dressé la chronologie des relations entre les deux pays au cours des 60 dernières années.
2001—Chinese President Jiang Zemin visits Burma and signs economic and border agreements in December.
1996—Sen-Gen Than Shwe makes his first visit to China since taking over as chairman of SLORC in 1992.
1994—Burma buys two modified Jianghu-class Chinese frigates in August. Chinese Premier Li Peng visits Burma at the invitation of Snr-Gen Than Shwe in December.
1993—Burma opens a consulate in Kunming, China.
1991—Eleven Chinese-made F7 jet fighters are delivered to Burma as part of a US $1 billion arms deal between Beijing and Rangoon which also includes naval patrol boats, tanks, armored personnel carriers, light arms, anti-aircraft guns and missiles, ammunition and other military equipment.
1990—The Chinese ambassador in Rangoon visits the office of the National League for Democracy to honor the landslide victory of the party in the election. The first major shipment of arms and ammunition from China arrives in Rangoon.
1989—Lt-Gen Than Shwe, the vice chairman of State Law and Order Restoration Council, leads a delegation of 24 senior military officials to China.
1988—Border trade is officially opened between the two countries in December.
1985—China stops its financial and other support to the Burmese Communist Party.
1979—China resumes a US $63 million aid program to Burma.
1975—Gen Ne Win visits China for four days in November and reaches an agreement that there will be no "aggressive acts" between the two nations.
1971—A new trade agreement is signed giving each country most-favored nation status.
1968—China supports the Communist Party of Burma, which wages war in Burma's Shan State.
1967—Anti-Chinese demonstrations break out in Rangoon in June. The Burmese government said 50 Chinese were killed during the riots. A few days later, 1,328 Chinese are detained. The Chinese embassy in Rangoon is attacked by protestors. Beijing announces that its ambassador will not return to Rangoon.
1965—Gen Ne Win visits China and reaffirms the 1961 treaty and five principles of peaceful coexistence.
1961—A combined force of 20,000 troops from the Chinese Peoples' Liberation Army (PLA) and 5,000 Burmese troops begin the "Mekong River Operation" to attack KMT bases north of Kengtung, Shan State.
1960—Burma signs Sino-Burmese Friendship and Mutal Non-Agression Treaty on Jan. 28. A boundary treaty between China and Burma is signed in Beijing on Oct. 1.
1954—The first trade agreement between the two countries is signed.
1953—Chinese Foreign Minister Zhou Enlai visits Rangoon in June. As president of the ruling Anti-Fascist People's Freedom League, U Nu visits China twice in November and December. He meets with Zhou Enlai and agrees to withdraw all its forces from the disputed border areas in Kachin State.
1950—Burma establishes diplomatic ties with China on June 8. More than 2,000 Kuomintang (KMT) forces from Yunnan cross the border to set up a base in Kengtung in eastern Shan State following the Communist victory in China.
1949—Chairman Mao Zedong proclaims the victory of the Chinese Communist party and establishes the Peoples' Republic of China on Oct. 1. Burma is the first country to recognize the Peoples' Republic of China on Dec. 17.
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