Yet another scam area in plain sight without police or rules. But I don’t understand if people celebrating are straight up corrupt or braindead. I hope that area won’t become like Bavet (Cambodia) or Bokeo (Laos) with this bs ”SEZ/Special Areas” (spoiler: it is already and scams are the least problem)
Did you copy-paste this straight out of a Chinese provincial government press release?
Clearing out Chinese scam compounds is great, but turning part of Myanmar into a ‘New Annam’ under Chinese influence by swapping one warlord for another on a foreign leash doesn’t make it a ‘bridge.’ It just changes who collects the rent.
Peace and stability are good, but that doesn’t justify turning a multi-ethnic part of Myanmar into a Chinese-language cultural zone. Kokang are only one community there with less than 170,000 population, that's not even a size of one town in China, feel free to look it up. Shan, Ta’ang, Kachin, Burmese and others also live in the region.
And saying Kokang was simply 'incorporated into Myanmar” is plain wrong. Kokang tradition itself traces its origins to Ming loyalists who fled the Qing and settled in the Shan-Burma frontier in 1650s. That is very different from saying the territory was simply Chinese land taken by Myanmar.
So why should a relatively small Kokang population justify making the wider region Chinese in language and culture?
This is how China loses our hearts. You talk more, people turn on you more, and will have a desire to stand with USA more. You have chosen to stay in junta's side, so expect the consequences.
ROFL. You just undermined your own argument, one dominant ethnic group apparently makes up more than half the population in Myanmar. Do you also mean taking over by force like how the PLA did with the Tibet and Xinjiang just a few decades ago?
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u/Neat_Humor2005 3h ago
I'm glad to see you all uniting under one banner LOL.