Fearing Harm to Myanmar Ties .

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an adviser to Myanmar’s president criticized her for lacking “transparency” in carrying out her trip and for her comments warning international investors against “reckless optimism” about Myanmar.

“Personally, I really admire her, but I have a doubt,” the adviser, U Nay Zin Latt, said in an e-mail. Public criticism of Ms. Aung San Suu Kyi, even in its mildest forms, is rare, partly because she is such a popular figure in the country.

Mr. Nay Zin Latt’s comments were the first by one of President Thein Sein’s advisers — who serve as spokesmen — since the president canceled a trip to Thailand on Friday. The Thai news media are portraying the cancellation as a reaction to Bangkok’s handling of Ms. Aung San Suu Kyi’s visit.

The fact that Ms. Aung San Suu Kyi was allowed back into the country on Sunday was a milestone on Myanmar’s road to national reconciliation. During the periods when she was not under house arrest in the past two decades, she chose not to travel abroad for fear of being denied re-entry by Myanmar’s military rulers.

Yet the discontent over her six-day visit to neighboring Thailand underlines the fragility of her country’s transition.

The complicated and delicate relationship between the president and Ms. Aung San Suu Kyi, a newly elected lawmaker, is in some ways the bedrock of the current reform process in Myanmar, formerly known as Burma. Their meeting in August accelerated the changes sweeping the country and helped persuade Ms. Aung San Suu Kyi to rejoin the political system.

“Most of the improvements in Burma these days are because of the relationship between Thein Sein and Aung San Suu Kyi,” said Win Min, a senior researcher at the Vahu Development Institute, an organization set up by Harvard-trained Burmese exiles that studies issues related to Myanmar. “I’m a little bit worried about their personal relations,” Mr. Win Min said. “If this relationship is strained, it could hurt national reconciliation.”

The abrupt cancellation on Friday of Mr. Thein Sein’s visit to Thailand appears to have been a message to Bangkok — and other governments across the region — that Myanmar’s leader will not tolerate being overshadowed by Ms. Aung San Suu Kyi’s star power