China is meeting with leaders from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) for a yearly summit amid reports that member states rebuffed Beijing’s request to include Myanmar’s top general, Al Jazeera reported.

The virtual summit, hosted by Chinese President Xi Jinping, began on Monday without a representative from Myanmar, according to Reuters.

This is the second time in a month that ASEAN has excluded Myanmar’s Commander-in-Chief Min Aung Hlaing from a regional summit.