In October last year, the Tatmadaw and ethnic armed groups such as Kokang, De'ang and Rakhine raided Lao Cai and exchanged fire with four major families in northern Myanmar and the Burmese government. In mid-January, with the mediation and facilitation of the Chinese side, the Burmese government army and the three allied brothers reached a ceasefire agreement. During this period, China also actively launched a crackdown on wire fraud, and achieved significant results, and many people really realized China's thunderbolt methods. But it turns out that the operation in northern Myanmar is still not over.
Recently, according to the website of the Ministry of Public Security, the Chinese police and the Myanmar police have recently carried out international police law enforcement cooperation, and for the first time carried out a joint crackdown in the Mujie area of northern Myanmar, and successfully arrested a large number of suspects in cross-border telecommunications network fraud. The statement also mentioned that last year, a total of 48,000 Chinese suspects involved in fraud were handed over to our side, and the situation of telecom network fraud in northern Myanmar has improved. However, there are still some fraud groups in the Mujie area of northern Myanmar who are lucky, commit crimes against the wind, and even participate in fraud and protect fraud with arms. In order to completely eliminate the fraud dens in the Mujie area, the police of the two countries decided to carry out a joint crackdown operation. Sister Ruili told Sister Mu outside the country, and the wire fraud group has caused serious trouble to the situation on our border. The last time it was Myawaddy, the last time it was Dachili, and now it's Sister Mu's turn. We generally do not act lightly, and if we do, we will cut down the grass and eradicate the roots, as is the case with the Tamil Tigers, which have already been extinguished.
While paying attention to the wire fraud operation, the situation on the China-Myanmar border has also been suddenly tense recently, especially the "Kachin Independence Army", which often operates near the Mujie area, and the war with the Myanmar military junta has suddenly expanded in recent days, and has even affected our border. Since the beginning of March, fighting has intensified in Myanmar's Kachin State. On March 7, the Kachin Independence Army, the Kachin People's Defence Army, the Arakan Army and other armed groups launched an offensive in Kachin State, and the Kachin rebels expelled nine Burmese junta camps, and the Kachin Independence Army (KIA) border gate to China was about to be stormed, according to the Burmese media outlet Irrawaddy River. Reki is one of Kachin State's five official border trading posts with China and is a major outpost in the China-Myanmar trade zone, where the Burmese army suffered heavy casualties and some troops fled into the jungle and China, although Chinese authorities subsequently closed the border. There are reports that China is pressuring the Kachin Independence Army not to occupy the town, where China has a vital stake.
Burmese media also reported an escalation of fighting in Kachin State, with a resident in the state's town of Lawe saying that at least three bombs had fallen into Chinese territory after the Kachin Army's headquarters in Lazia had been shelled. There is also a video showing smoke billowing from the Chinese side. At present, the PLA border guards have begun to set up red lines on the security fence of the Yunnan-Kachin State border. At the same time, a certain unit of the Southern Theater announced that it would conduct a joint live-fire exercise on our side of the Sino-Burmese border. Since it was a joint exercise, it seems that there were more than just army units, and the exercise was located near the border with Myanmar's Kachin State. There is a neighbor who has been in civil strife all day long, and all kinds of forces are mixed together, and they are also unlucky.
Crackdowns on wire fraud and border protection often go hand in hand, and this time the Kachin army and the Kokang allies are not the same, and the Kachin army is full of Western influences. Kachin not only seeks secession from Burma, but has even sought to encroach on the northeastern Indian state and parts of China's Yunnan province. While Myanmar's military junta is often absurd, at least there are normal rules for intercourse between countries. It is the right way to cooperate with the Myanmar government to completely eradicate wire fraud and maintain border stability.