Abstract:

Myanmar is one of China's neighboring countries. Southwest China has faced with the bad geopolitical environment created by the Civil War and the transnational impact of the drug economy in Myanmar. Using text analysis, this article focuses on the civil war and the drug economy in Myanmar. Based on the analysis of the history and main causes of the long-term civil war, as well as the origin and development of the drug economy in Myanmar, the paper analyzes the relations between civil war and drug economy through the perspective of geopolitics. The research questions in the article are as follows: Why have drug economy spread in Myanmar under state of civil war? How does the drug economy influence the long-term civil war and hinder the end of the civil war in Myanmar? The study argues that civil war and drug economy in Myanmar are interacted. In other words, civil war results in and is attributed to opium poppy cultivation and drug economy in Myanmar, which reshapes the interests of the parties involved federal government and minority armies, making it difficult to resolve the civil war in Myanmar.

Key words: civil war in Myanmar, drug economy, geopolitics, Southwest China

摘要：

中国西南地区面临着因缅甸内战和毒品经济产生的跨国影响而形成的恶劣的地缘政治环境。通过文本分析法，本文聚焦缅甸内战和毒品经济，在分析缅甸内战历史和现实致因、缅甸毒品经济起源与发展的基础上，从地缘政治学视角，揭示了缅甸内战与毒品经济之间的相互关联。本文试图回答的问题是：缅甸内战状态下的毒品经济为何在缅甸蔓延？毒品经济又如何加深缅甸内战并阻碍内战的终结？缅甸内战与毒品经济相互纠缠，即缅甸内战不是由毒品经济利益所触发，但缅甸内战刺激了鸦片种植和催生了畸形的毒品经济，而毒品经济重塑了缅甸联邦政府与少数民族地方武装等各方利益，从而为缅甸内战解决蒙上了阴影。

关键词: 缅甸内战, 毒品经济, 地缘政治学, 中国西南地区