title: China welcomes Myanmars efforts to alleviate situation in Rakhine
text: BEIJING (Reuters) - China s Foreign Minister Wang Yi said China welcomes the measures taken by Myanmar s government to alleviate the situation in Rakhine state.  Wang made the comments in New York on Thursday on during a meeting on the sidelines of the annual United Nations General Assembly with Myanmar officials, according to a Foreign Ministry statement. More than 400,000 Muslim Rohingya have fled from Rakhine across the border to Bangladesh following a counter-insurgency offensive by Myanmar s army in the wake of militant attacks on security forces. U.N. officials have described Myanmar s strategy as  ethnic cleansing .  