New Delhi, June 12 -- Senior General Min Aung Hlaing, head of Myanmar's military junta and sworn in as the country's 11th President on April 10, 2026, following a cautiously engineered parliamentary vote, toured India from May 30 to June 3, 2026. This was his first international visit since assuming the presidency, and his formal invitation to New Delhi by Prime Minister Narendra Modi indicates New Delhi's pragmatic approach to engaging whoever heads Myanmar as part of securing India's volatile eastern frontier, managing cross-border insurgencies that have evolved into terrorism, and checking Chinese influence, despite ongoing international criticism over the regime's anti-democratic credentials.

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