Top Chinese official tours Thai-Myanmar border to highlight crackdown on scam centers

Now can we get China to stop backing the disgusting Tatmadaw?

Now can we get China to stop backing the disgusting Tatmadaw?

They are not friends or even allies. The Chinese back two of the opposition armies arrayed against the Tatmadaw. Take some time to learn what is going on in Myanmar. One of those opposition armies are from a tribe that is ethnic Chinese. China has backed them for a very long time because they guard mines run by the Chinese extracting rare earth minerals for China's industries. The Tatmadaw grew so frustrated with them that in 2009 the Myanmar Air Force conducted airstrikes inside China on sites operated by that opposition army. Many of the scam centers mentioned in the article were funding the Tatmadaw until rebel forces ran the Tatmadaw force out and closed the scam centers. That hurt the Tatmadaw financially. If you recall one of the stated reasons for the Tatmadaw's most recent coup was the accusation that the ruling party under Suu Kyi was too close to the Chinese.

Desert TortoiseToday 07:10 am JST

Now can we get China to stop backing the disgusting Tatmadaw?

They are not friends or even allies. The Chinese back two of the opposition armies arrayed against the Tatmadaw. Take some time to learn what is going on in Myanmar.

They are still a main supplier of the Tatmadaw. They only backed the rebels briefly because of the same center issue:

https://www.ohchr.org/sites/default/files/documents/countries/myanmar/crp-sr-myanmar-2023-05-17.pdf

Maybe you need to to take some time to learn what is going on in Myanmar.

*scam center

They are still a main supplier of the Tatmadaw.

No they are not. Myanmar makes most its mines, rockets and warships locally though their biggest amphibious ship is from South Korea. Small arms are a mixed bag of European, Russian, South African, American and Chinese weapons. Most aircraft are from Russia and a few are European, artillery is a mixed bag of European, South Korean, South African, Chinese and Russian, as well as legacy US and British field artillery. China is not a primary arms supplier.

So China wants help addressing international crime harming Chinese. Not sure that I care as long as China won't extradite their home-grown criminals to other countries for international crime they do outside China.