The Chinese Communist Party‘s position of supporting the military coup has ignited the anger of the Burmese people.
As the Chinese Communist Party is accused of supporting a coup by the Burmese military, the Burmese people are targeting local Chinese businesses to vent their anger. Burmese workers in Yangon besieged the local Cathay Garment Industrial Park on Wednesday (17), and the damage to local Chinese-owned enterprises is currently unknown because of the information blockade by the Communist Party and the Burmese military.
Mr. Chen, a garment manufacturer in Myanmar, pointed out to the station that the Chinese Communist authorities have provoked the anger of the Burmese people and relented to the local Chinese because they supported the Burmese military who staged the coup and provided them with materials and technical support including disconnecting the Internet. Following some previous piecemeal attacks and harassment, the garment industrial park in Yangon’s ShwePyiThar township, invested by state-owned Jiangsu Guotai, has been under siege by Burmese workers in the park since Wednesday morning (17).
Mr. Chen said: the Internet has been speculated, the danger has also happened, that is, like that the hooligans like the threat of intimidation has happened. The personal attack happened yesterday to a few families, that is, a few families below Cathay. He was mainly asking companies to keep their salaries, and they were going to join a march that surrounded the Chinese offices and prevented them from going out, demanding a holiday until the 28th with pay.
Mr. Chen pointed out that the Burmese workers had angered the enterprises in several parks by proposing to them that the factory must give all Burmese workers paid leave until Feb. 28 because the workers were going to take to the streets to protest against the military coup, and the Chinese business managers were not willing to bear the cost. The situation remained unabated until the afternoon, but the follow-up situation is unknown because information is blocked.
Asked if they could evacuate without incident if there was danger, Mr. Chen said the airport is still closed and flights have stopped except for a small number of cargo planes. Especially after the airport ground staff also went on strike to protest the junta’s coup, the evacuation of the Chinese has become even more difficult. But the Chinese Embassy in Myanmar has not made any statement on this. The Chinese Embassy in Burma is also in a difficult position to protect itself, and protesters continue to gather outside its doors every day.
Our correspondent also contacted the head of another Chinese-funded chamber of commerce in Yangon, but he seemed to be under pressure not to say anything about it.
A former central media reporter confirmed to us that the Chinese Ministry of Propaganda has banned the media from reporting news about the siege of Chinese companies, and has asked them to report in a way that claims that the Chinese side has no knowledge of the coup by the Burmese military. As for the sharp deterioration of the situation of Chinese in Myanmar, no media dare to discuss it.
Chen Hongtao, a senior domestic media figure, said he has not seen any news about the siege of Chinese companies, which he believes is just the norm under the information blackout.
Chen Hongtao said: Myanmar’s Chinese-owned enterprises are under siege, if you do not say, I really do not know. But, something like this, the country can not see. This is normal, what is the firewall itself? It is to foreign some things ah, and foreign comments on the domestic ah, evaluation ah, is not let you know well. Now the media, not to mention the forwarding of news, even comments are not allowed to comment.
Our reporter called Jiangsu Guotai Group several times, but the company’s many phones have not been answered. The phone number of the Chinese Communist Embassy in Myanmar, on the other hand, has been unavailable.
In recent years, Xi Jinping‘s government has increased its foreign expansion and exported CCP-style authoritarian politics, which has also sparked widespread resentment among people in developing countries and worsened the situation of local Chinese.
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