Our eyes are always focused on the Taiwan Strait, the South China Sea, and the East China Sea, but little attention has been paid to the turmoil on our land borders. Recently, the Southern Theater announced that the Southern Theater will organize army and air force units to hold an air defense live-fire exercise on our side of the China-Burmese border on 17 April to test the capabilities of reconnaissance and early warning, three-dimensional closure and control, warning and expulsion, and air defense strikes, and to be prepared to deal with all kinds of emergencies. This is not long after the last exercise, and on April 7-8, an exercise was also held on the China-Myanmar border in the Southern Theater. As we all know, the civil strife in Myanmar continues, which affects the situation on the border between China and Myanmar. Last year, when the Burmese military junta and the Kokang allies fought fiercely, China conducted exercises on the China-Myanmar border, but this time it was obviously different in nature and had a lot of information. Judging from the weapons and equipment that appeared in the released video of the exercise, as well as the content of the exercise and the troops participating in the exercise, this is certainly not used to deal with some "small miscellaneous fish". Moreover, the time of the two exercises is so close that the second exercise even only said the start time, but did not mention the end time, which is relatively rare, and it can also be seen that the situation is very serious, what happened?
Previously, at the instigation of China, the Kokang Alliance and the Burmese junta had ceased war. But since March, the Kachin Independence Army, the Kachin People's Defence Force, and other armed groups have launched a new round of aggressive offensives in Kachin State, and the escalation of fighting between Burmese government forces and these armed groups has affected security along China's southwestern border, near which the Southern Theater exercises took place. There is a view that China's ongoing military exercises in the vicinity are aimed at pressuring the Burmese army, while others believe that it is aimed at deterring these ethnic groups. But to deal with them, there is no need for China to make such a big move, my view is to knock on the mountain and shock the "eagle" to deter the financiers behind them, and they have already shown their tails.
At the end of March, U.S. State Department adviser Derek Bridgelight claimed on social media that he had met with the leaders of the "K3C" (Kachin Independence Organization, Karen National Union, Karenni National Progressive Party, and Chin National Front) coalition to discuss their extraordinary efforts to pursue democracy in the Union of Myanmar and that aid would be expanded. The man is seen as the Pentagon's "number three," and his intention to meet with K3C leaders to discuss "democracy" and aid could not be more obvious. The ethnic armed forces in Kachin State converge culturally and religiously and have very close ties with the West, while the armed forces in Kachin State are all threats to China, Myanmar, and India, and are also tools for the United States and the West to manipulate the three countries. In recent years, from the Taiwan Strait and the South China Sea to the Sino-Indian border and the China-Myanmar border, the United States really wants to provoke wars around China. Since April, leaders and high-level leaders of many Southeast Asian countries have visited China frequently, especially the Vietnamese leaders, because the situation is tense and they are afraid of war, and they want to come over to find out the direction of the wind and express their positions. China's frequent military exercises are aimed at deterring certain Indochina countries that want to lure the wolf into the house, and also to deter the United States, which wants to provoke a war behind it. Judging from previous experience, China can still tolerate and have enough patience in its maritime sphere of influence, but it will definitely not be able to tolerate the existence of any uneasy factors on its land borders, as the United States, Vietnam, and India have all experienced in advance in the last century.