In the early part of last week I was in Kunming to attend the eighth iteration of an annual academic symposium on Myanmar – “Myanmar in 2014: Re-integrating into International Community”. The host was Professor Li Chenyang, Director of the Center for Myanmar Studies at Yunnan University. The co-organizers were the Charhar Institute, the Faculty of Social Sciences at HKU, and the Department of International Relations at Yangon University. This endeavour was launched in Bangkok on March 2, 2007 – the 45th anniversary of the Ne Win coup. I was the organizer, and Konrad Adenauer Stiftung was the key external funder alongside HKU. We then moved to Xiamen University in 2008, Yunnan University in 2009 and HKU in 2010-13, before returning to Yunnan this year. Every session is governed by the Chatham House rule, so I have little to report. But I can say two things. One is that the tripartite mix of Myanmar, China and international scholars and practitioners, not yet visible in 2007 but ever more clear in each succeeding year, is proving to be constructive and stimulating. The other is that, having danced around East Asia for nearly a decade, we have an excellent chance of actually moving inside Myanmar next year. The aim in 2015 is to convene at the University of Yangon.