On the eve of the coup in Myanmar, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi visited the country and met with pro-Beijing military chief Min Aung Hlaing, calling each other “brothers”.
The recent military coup in Myanmar has attracted global public attention. On the eve of the coup, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi visited Myanmar, met with pro-Beijing military chief Min Aung Hlaing, and called each other “brother. Some scholars suspect that the Chinese Communist Party was behind the coup, and that Wang Yi may have given the commander of the Burmese army a “piece of mind” beforehand.
Wang Yi Meets with Burmese Army Chief on Eve of Coup
In the early hours of February 1, the Burmese military launched a coup d’état, detaining Senior State Counselor Aung San Suu Kyi and President Win Myint, and then taking over power.
The military took over power because of “fraud” in last November’s election, Min Aung Hlaing said on the 2nd. After the re-election, the military government will hand over power to the winner.
On the same day, the Burmese military carried out a major purge of the Burmese government, replacing 11 central government ministers and removing 24 deputy ministers from their posts.
Independent columnist and current affairs commentator Gopidon told the Epoch Times that, in his view, the coup in Burma was “a Chinese Communist Party operation” from start to finish.
Just three weeks before the military seized power in Burma, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi met with military chief Min Aung Hlaing in Naypyitaw, Burma’s capital. Wang appreciated the “brotherhood” between the Burmese military and the Chinese Communist Party and said that the Chinese Communist Party supports the “positive role” of the Burmese military.
Hart, the foreign policy spokesman for Germany‘s CDU and CSU parties in the Bundestag, told Deutsche Welle that the Chinese Communist Party may have encouraged the Burmese military to stage the coup and called on the EU to investigate the coup.
The coup in Burma raises a lot of questions,” Hart said. I don’t know if a major power is behind the coup. In January, the Chinese (Communist) foreign minister visited Burma and met with representatives of the Burmese military. Perhaps the Chinese (Communist) government encouraged the Burmese military to take over the country’s power at that Time. I ask the EU to launch a detailed investigation into the circumstances behind the whole coup.”
According to mainland media reports, during his meeting with Wang Yi, Min Aung Hlaing bluntly stated that there was fraud in Myanmar’s general elections last November and that the military would take action. It is unclear how Wang Yi responded at the time.
However, shortly after Wang Yi’s visit, the Burmese military staged a military coup. It is also worth noting that amidst a wave of condemnation of the Burmese military by Western countries, the Chinese Communist Party was the only one that not only did not condemn it, but was extremely moderate.
Avinash Paliwal, a senior lecturer in politics and international relations at the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London, believes that the Chinese Communist Party’s tacit approval of the military’s actions may have contributed to the coup.
Communist infiltration of the Burmese military
Some analysts believe that the Chinese Communist Party is manipulating the political situation in Burma and stirring up civil unrest so that it can reap greater benefits from Burma on the one hand, and use Burma as blackmail to bargain with the international community, just as North Korea has done on the other.
Min Aung Hlaing has interests with the Chinese Communist Party, and many senior officers in the military have been trained at the Chinese Communist Party’s military academy, just like the police in Hong Kong, according to Gopidon.
Professor Feng Chongyi, a professor at the University of Technology Sydney and an expert on China, also said that the Burmese military has always had various ties with the Chinese Communist Party, and that the original Chengdu Military Region sent many officers to serve in the Burmese military.
The coup, according to Gopidon, is not just between the Burmese military and Aung San Suu Kyi, but the Chinese Communist Party is using its card of mercenaries (the Burmese military) to crack down on Aung San Suu Kyi, and “the Chinese Communist Party is the real mastermind behind it.
He said that although Daw Aung San Suu Kyi has had some economic cooperation with the CCP in recent years, the CCP wants to use Myanmar to open up access to the Malacca Strait, and on this key issue, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi insists on protecting the interests of the Burmese state, which annoys the CCP.
A major Chinese Communist Party project in Myanmar is the $1.3 billion Kyaukpyu deep-water port project in Rakhine State, which will serve as Beijing’s gateway to the Indian Ocean. There is also an $8.9 billion Mandalay High Speed Rail project in China and Burma, from Yunnan to Muse. When the project is completed, the Communist Party of China will not have to rely entirely on the Straits of Malacca to maintain an open energy corridor from the Middle East to China.
Gopidon said, “We can see very soon within a year that the military will cooperate and allow the CCP ‘Belt and Road’ project to be implemented very smoothly in Myanmar.”
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