MYANMAR: Sandwiched between China & India and gaining from both

Myanmar which has common boundaries with both China in the east and India in the west is crucial to both these nations in pursuance of their strategic, security, military and economic interests. Myanmar is exploiting this situation and is pitting one against the other for deriving maximum benefit from both. Myanmar, despite being impoverished by its isolationist policies and sanctions of the west, is wooed by the neighbouring countries, for its mineral wealth, energy resources (oil) and timber.