According to information from the Southern Theater of the People's Liberation Army, on 17 April, the Southern Theater organized army and air force units to hold an air defense live-fire exercise on our side of the Sino-Burmese border, aimed at testing the theater's troops' reconnaissance and early warning, three-dimensional closure and control, warning and dispersal, and air defense strike capabilities. You must know that on 2 April, the Southern Theater of Operations had already held a live-fire exercise near the China-Myanmar border, and now a second exercise has been held in half a month.
(In just half a month, the PLA once again held a large-scale multi-service joint exercise)
It should be said that the PLA's live and ammunition exercises this time do indeed have a lot to do with the situation in Myanmar, so in order to understand the PLA's continuous border exercises, we must first understand what is happening in Myanmar?
Since last year, local militants in Myanmar's Kokang region suddenly descended and launched an attack on the Burmese army in the name of fighting wire fraud, more than 30 militias in Myanmar have launched attacks on the Burmese army. However, at that time, although the electric fraud park in Kokang was quickly and completely bulldozed, in fact, the largest electric fraud park in Myanmar, the Myawaddy electric fraud park close to Thailand and Laos, has not been left untouched. You must know that there are a total of 200,000~300,000 people in Myawaddy Electric Fraud Park, which is much larger than that of the Kokang area, and Myawaddy has been controlled by the Myanmar government army, which shows that the military government of Myanmar is the biggest behind-the-scenes boss of the electric fraud group.
(Major General Aung Lington was arrested, and it is reported that this person is the backstage umbrella of the Myanmar wire fraud syndicate)
The most direct victims of Myanmar's wire fraud industry are Chinese, so since the Chinese government has launched an anti-wire fraud campaign, it is bound to completely wipe out all Myanmar wire fraud industries, and of course it is impossible to leave a single Miawadi untouched. So not long ago, the Myanmar military junta itself took action to arrest the deputy defense minister, Major General Aung Limton, which means that the Myanmar military junta was forced to start cracking down on the wire fraud industry. Subsequently, the Burmese government forces in the Myawaddy area were also defeated by the Karen National Union (KNU) forces, and the militia occupied the Myawaddy area. This means that the last electric fraud park in Myanmar has also been completely eliminated.
(PLA artillery in the border area of China and Myanmar)
On April 2, the People's Liberation Army (PLA) held a live-fire exercise on the China-Myanmar border, mainly because the Kachin armed forces in Myanmar occupied a border crossing on the China-Myanmar border, and the Kachin armed forces have always been funded by the United States and have not had friendly relations with us. Therefore, the People's Liberation Army (PLA) is holding exercises on the border to warn the other side not to act rashly. The PLA exercises held at the border this time emphasized defense and vigilance, with air defense and border vigilance as the mainstay, and all the units participating in the exercise have undergone special training, and the purpose of the exercise is to test our army's capabilities in reconnaissance and early warning, three-dimensional blockade and control, and air defense strikes.
(PLA anti-aircraft missile)
It is not difficult to see from the content of the exercise that the PLA is comprehensively strengthening the vigilance on the Sino-Burmese border, mainly because the Burmese civil war is now intensifying, and the Myanmar military junta has lost a lot of territory in the previous battles, and the army has also suffered heavy losses. In this context, we are stepping up border vigilance for three reasons:
(Myanmar Air Force)
First of all, it is necessary to prevent the flames of the Burmese civil war from spreading to the mainland. In the previous civil war in Burma, both the civilian armed forces and the Burmese army had shells hit China, although the other side may not have done it on purpose, but after all, the shells did not last long when they started the war, and with the level of the armed forces of all walks of life in Myanmar, firing artillery was basically a daily operation. In addition, the Burmese government army still has a considerable number of fighter jets, so in case of an accident, it is possible to drop bombs on the mainland, which is why the PLA must first strengthen air defense in this military exercise.
(The mainland has been granted a 99-year lease for the port of Kyaukphyu in Myanmar, which is also the starting point for the China-Myanmar oil pipeline and the China-Myanmar gas pipeline.)
Second, strengthen the observation of the situation in Myanmar and be ready to respond to possible unexpected situations. This is because there are not one or two militias fighting against the Burmese army, but a scuffle between more than 30 armed forces, and the mainland has a large number of national interests in Myanmar, such as the Myitsone Hydropower Station, the China-Myanmar Oil Pipeline, and the Kyaukphyu Port, all of which are important cooperation projects of the mainland in Myanmar.
(Burmese refugees fleeing the fighting)
Finally, any war will create a large number of refugees, so we need to strengthen the border closure to effectively prevent the possible impact of the refugee flow on the mainland. According to reports, six of the 17 land ports on the China-Myanmar border are already under the control of the people's armed forces, so it is very likely that Burmese people will pour into the mainland through these ports to escape the war, and if there is an influx of refugees, it will undoubtedly have a serious impact on the security and economic development of the mainland's border.
(The PLA will closely monitor the situation in Myanmar and defend our homeland security at any time)
All in all, with China's current strength, neither the Burmese government army nor the civilian forces can be stupid enough to "wrestle hands" with the PLA, but as the situation in Myanmar becomes more and more chaotic, the military government can no longer suppress the situation, so we need to conduct targeted exercises in advance to ensure that there is enough strength to deal with various emergencies. These exercises are not intended to interfere in Myanmar's internal affairs, but to better guard our own borders and ensure that the fighting and refugees do not affect our homeland.