On February 4, 2021, a large number of Burmese coup troops entered Burma’s second largest city. Local armed forces in northern Burma release
The coup staged by the Burmese military has created an atmosphere of instability in the society. Burmese people who support the government are generally complaining about the Chinese Communist Party‘s performance in shielding the Burmese military, and there is even a trend of escalating xenophobic sentiments. Dozens of local Chinese organizations, worried about a repeat of the bloody Chinese exclusion, have issued statements condemning the Chinese government for condoning the coup and demanding that the Burmese military release Aung San Suu Kyi.
After the coup, the Chinese Communist Party’s representative to the United Nations defended the Burmese military for staging the coup and tried to prevent the Security Council from condemning it, sparking a fierce backlash from the local population after the news spread in Myanmar on Thursday night (Feb. 4). Fierce criticism of the Chinese government quickly emerged on social media, and quickly spilled over into actions against Chinese in Myanmar, with abuse and attacks on Burmese Chinese.
Mr. Chen, a Burmese Chinese in Yangon, told this reporter that after the disclosure of the official attitude of the Chinese Communist Party, the anti-Chinese sentiment in Burmese society is indeed heating up rapidly. They are all very worried now, but because they have nowhere to hide, they can only stay at Home and watch the situation with fear and anxiety.
Mr. Chen said, “The crisis is still brewing, and we don’t know what will happen. How things are going to develop, no one can predict, right? Now, if something happens, the local Chinese are the “main culprits”, because of this, we are now living in fear.
The Chinese business leader, who requested anonymity, believes that the Chinese Communist Party’s performance in the Security Council has led directly to the hatred of Chinese businesses in Myanmar.
He said, “China’s vote against the motion has stirred up a lot of waves for the Chinese in Myanmar, and there is still a serious feeling of Chinese exclusion. In the morning, because our lawyers in Myanmar also came over to talk about it, there is still a little serious. The first victim is our private enterprises. Including the Western sanctions, these enterprises basically have to close down.
And a pro-China Burmese Chinese also admitted that feeling the danger and pressure, the only thing they can do now is to hide at home and not go out.
Mr. Xiang said: China is doing things in its interest to see the problem, ah, I can not say clearly, this thing is not easy to say. It is useless to worry, we are all staying at home.
In Myanmar, hundreds of thousands of Chinese are in a great panic. This panic and concern has even spread to areas controlled by ethnic armed groups in northern Myanmar, which have close ties with China, and has sparked discontent among the local population against the Chinese government. Dozens of Chinese organizations, including the Kokang ethnic group in Shan State, issued a statement on Thursday evening in the name of all Chinese in Myanmar, saying they will stand on the side of justice and live and die together with the Burmese people.
Dozens of Chinese organizations issued a statement pointing out that the official practice of the Chinese Communist Party may provoke a wave of Chinese exclusion in Burma, and stressed that in the 1960s and 1970s, as the Chinese Communist Party exported revolutionary support to the Communist Party of Burma, it had led to large-scale Chinese exclusion and led to the killing of countless Chinese, therefore, the Burmese Chinese condemned the Chinese government’s support for the Burmese military coup and joined all Burmese people to support the state capital Aung San Suu Kyi and democratically elected President U Win Myint.
It is reported that after the public statement was released, Chinese Communist Party officials also quickly exerted pressure to delete the content, including the Twitter account named “Shan State Kokang Nation”. The message was uniformly forwarded by pro-Chinese self-media WeChat accounts, which said that the Chinese community’s condemnation of the Chinese government’s support for the Tatmadaw would further irritate the Burmese population and lead to more serious consequences.
But these self-publishers, who released the news at the behest of the Chinese Communist Party, also emphasized in their articles that it would be difficult for their ancestral country (China) to effectively protect the Chinese in the event of a tragedy.
The Chinese Embassy in Burma did not respond to requests for interviews, and several of the agency’s phone numbers were unavailable.
In recent years, the Chinese government has once again exported authoritarian politics around the world, and large numbers of Chinese businesspeople and even Chinese are once again being drawn into the official narrative of the Chinese Communist Party, which is increasingly provoking a backlash from the people of the countries where it operates.
But whether it is the Xin Guan (CCP virus) Epidemic or the regional crisis, local Chinese and even Chinese citizens in danger have been unable to get help from the Chinese government, and millions of Chinese citizens have even been forcibly blocked from returning to their home countries during the epidemic crisis.
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