2-meter-high barbed wire fence erected along China’s Laos border (Photo credit: video screenshot)
On February 8, netizens posted a video showing Chinese Communist authorities working on the Yunnan side of China’s Laos border, erecting a snake-like barbed wire fence spreading between hills and fields, more than 2 meters high, which the Communist authorities say is intended to prevent the importation of viruses. Sources say another major reason is that the CCP is trying to prevent the country from fleeing. Netizens said that another spectacle, the Great Wall of 10,000 miles has also appeared in the southern border.
According to comprehensive media reports, by the end of 2020, Chinese authorities had completed a 660-kilometer barrier along the China-Myanmar border, code-named the “Great Wall of the South,” including barbed wire, surveillance systems, and high-voltage electricity.
On the Sino-Vietnamese border, the Chinese authorities have also built various types of fences hundreds of kilometers long, claiming that they are designed to block the importation of viruses on the one hand and to prevent smuggling of people on the other.
According to official media reports, China’s border with Yunnan alone is 4,060 kilometers long, bordering Burma, Laos and Vietnam, plus the Guangxi-Vietnam border, making a total of nearly 5,000 kilometers of border. In many places, villages and fields are connected to each other, and the movement of people between them is very frequent.
In addition to the need to control epidemics, China’s construction of a wall along the Sino-Vietnamese border reflects the country’s nervousness about economic issues, according to ABC Chinese. In recent years, tens of thousands of Chinese have gone to Vietnam to work. In addition, Carl Sayer, professor emeritus of Southeast Asian studies at the University of New South Wales, said, “It’s to stop the Chinese from leaving the country, not just the workers who don’t have jobs, but other people that China doesn’t want to leave.”
The video posted by netizens shows that the Communist authorities are building a 2-meter-high barbed wire fence along the Laotian border in China, stretching along hills and fields in a true Great Wall-like fashion. On the Laotian side, there is basically natural green vegetation; while on the Yunnan side, it is already all fully reclaimed terraced fields.
Laos-Yunnan border Re-creation of the Great Wall of Snake Cages? Anti-Epidemic measures
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