China will not give up on Myanmar's military

Yun Sun is a senior fellow and director of the China program and co-director of the East Asia program of the Stimson Center, a Washington-based think tank.

After more than three years of post-coup turmoil, Myanmar is gridlocked in a political and military stalemate. Despite the remarkable progress ethnic armed groups and resistance forces have made against the military regime, particularly since October, they still face a difficult, if not impossible, challenge in seeking to push the military out of its urban strongholds.