Blinken urges China and Southeast Asian nations to pressure Myanmar to restore democracy – ChinaPulse.com – China News, Data, Media Intelligence and Insights

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Sunday condemned the Myanmar junta's crackdown and urged China and a bloc of Southeast Asian nations to pressure Myanmar's military rulers to restore democracy and adhere to a peace deal it agreed to last year. "I think it is up to China and China's interests to get Burma back to the path it was on before the coup interrupted it so violently," Blinken said, using Myanmar's former name. He told a news conference in Bangkok that despite last year's "five-point consensus" peace deal developed by the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, or ASEAN,…