SCMP Chronicles - Myanmar’s changing ties with China 1.0

Sweeping political changes in Myanmar over the last years and changing attitudes towards Myanmar's giant neighbour China have forced Chinese residents and companies to adapt.

In a special report, the South China Morning Post examines jade trade and smuggling along the porous Myanmar-China border. It follows a Chinese state-owned hydro-power conglomerate lobbying for the construction of Myanmar's biggest dam to provide electricity to China's Yunnan province.

It visits activists hiding from politics as they organise demonstrations against a copper mine run by a subsidiary of a Chinese arms manufacturer and follows the landmark trial of a group of journalists facing up to 14 years in jail for reporting on an alleged Chinese chemical weapons factory.

SCMP Chronicles; an ongoing series of long-form multimedia stories brought to you by the South China Morning Post.