Over the past five years, China has made massive investments in Myanmar to build its case for the energy sources. Beijing has followed a similar strategy in Asia, Africa and Latin America to win energy blocks and has recently struck deals in Kazakhstan, Russia, Indonesia, Nigeria and Angola - in most cases beating out India as one of the main contenders.
Much to India's chagrin, China has even offered to buy gas from Iran should India opt out of the Iran-Pakistan-India (IPI) gas pipeline. India has been dilly-dallying about the IPI due to US pressure to forestall the project.
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