"Interview on the implications of China’s Belt and Road Initiative for Myanmar and its people. China’s BRI is a large infrastructural undertaking that seeks to reactivate the legendary Silk Roads. Myanmar is China's closest link to the Indian Ocean, which makes the country strategically important for the maritime segment of China’s Belt and Road Initiative, especially with the two countries propelling the China-Myanmar economic corridor in 2017. Former Ambassador U Nyunt Maung Shein and Chariman of the Myanmar Institute of Strategic and International Studies replies during a regional workshop in Myanmar on the security implications of BRI’s maritime segment..."