Kokang is called "Little China", it seems that there is no difference between an ordinary county in China, so the place with Chinese characteristics is not in China, but belongs to Myanmar, kokang's full name is kokang autonomous region in northern Shan State, Myanmar, where 95% of the population is "kokang ethnic group", they claim to be Chinese, do not identify with themselves as Burmese, then, what does Kokang have to do with China? Today, the fawn will take everyone into the Kokang people together.
I don't know if you have ever brushed the video of "Kokang News" on the Internet, much like the news broadcast of local Chinese television, although the host's Mandarin is not very fluent, it does not affect our viewing at all, people who do not know the inside story also think that this is the program of China's local station, but you will find that there is no place in China. This is the same boldness as China everywhere, which used to belong to China and now belongs to Myanmar.
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People living in this place are called "Kokang people", in more than 2700 square kilometers of land live more than 200,000 Kokang people, their living habits are highly similar to China, the textbooks used in schools and the textbooks used by Chinese students are exactly the same, the signal used by mobile phones is China Telecom and China Unicom, many people will go to Yunnan University in China, if not carefully identified, it is impossible to see any difference between them and Chinese.
Kokang area has long attracted much attention, mainly because they and Myanmar's main ethnic groups are full of contradictions, the local and central governments do not deal with each other, and even attack each other, bringing unstable factors to the local people, we can often hear reports of conflicts in this area, to put it bluntly, Kokang does not think that they are Myanmar, Myanmar wants to strengthen the management of the region, why does this phenomenon occur?
What is the reason for the perennial war in the Kokang region? Looking back at history, we can see that Kokang belonged to China before the Qing Dynasty, was assigned to Burma after the British colonial invasion, became a region of Myanmar after independence, and was later controlled by the Communist Party of Myanmar, and then for various reasons, Kokang and the central government of Myanmar began to attack each other, until in recent years, this area has gradually settled down.
Although this place has been ceased for more than 20 years, there will still be some sporadic exchanges of fire, on the surface it looks calm and calm, but behind the scenes, there is an undercurrent of turbulence, all sides are at odds with each other, they are maintaining their own interests, and no one will just wait and die, which is enough to see the complicated situation in the region.
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But to be honest, there are reasons for the current situation in this place, as we all know, Myanmar is a multi-ethnic country, the Burmese account for two-thirds of the total population, not an absolute advantage, the British colonial period of "divide and rule" led to the idea of division of other ethnic groups in Myanmar, and the Burmese central government wants to maintain the unity of the country, and the ethnic problems left over from history have not been eradicated.
Nowadays, not only Kokang is confronting the central government, there are several local armed forces in northern Myanmar that cannot be underestimated, and on the whole, northern Myanmar is a mess, the situation is relatively chaotic, but these places are bordering China, and you can imagine how much pressure we are facing. "King of Kokang" Peng Jiasheng said that Kokang is "a foreign Han state, descendants of the Southern Ming, and a Chinese outcast", so what does the Kokang people have to do with Chinese?
Kokang people think that they are Han Chinese, and they moved here to escape the chaos of war, what is the little-known secret behind this? According to historical data, the Kokang people should be descendants of the Southern Ming, in the late Ming and early Qing Dynasties, the Southern Ming Yongli Emperor Zhu Youluo and his subordinates were defeated and retreated here, and they took root here, but this place has been in the territory of China, until the British invasion was assigned to Burma, resulting in the descendants of the Southern Ming living in this land living in a foreign land.
Nowadays, in addition to the descendants of the Southern Ming Dynasty, some of the people living in this area are also the descendants of some expeditionary forces left in the local area during the war and chaos of the last century, their language and culture are exactly the same as China, there is no Burmese factor at all, objectively speaking, the relationship between kokang people and the mainland is constantly separated, and the kokang people and the residents of yunnan province on the mainland are "living in a mountain and drinking a river together".
Peng Jiasheng
In fact, the Kokang people are the Chinese, in the era of the invasion of the Western powers, their homeland was stolen by the British, resulting in more than two hundred years of separation from the motherland, and now, the life of the Kokang people gradually returned to the usual calm, can live quietly, the war smoke to the Kokang people on this land the pain will gradually be smoothed out, but the national pain is estimated to take a long time to be smoothed.
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