People in Yangon held a mass protest on Feb. 7, and police blocked the streets.
Myanmar’s military coup triggered a wave of mass protests and a volatile situation in the country. Myanmar is called the backyard of the Chinese Communist Party and the frontline of the Belt and Road. Some analysts believe that there are two major signals before and after the coup in Myanmar, indicating the shadow of the Chinese Communist Party behind the coup.
The Burmese military launched a coup on February 1, arresting and prosecuting Burmese leader Aung San Suu Kyi and other top government officials. At the same Time, the military announced that it had taken over power and imposed a year of military rule.
The coup triggered a wave of protests, with large numbers of people taking to the streets in Yangon and other major cities since Feb. 6 to protest the military coup and oppose the military dictatorship.
The situation in Myanmar has aroused international concern, and the outside world has turned its attention to the Chinese Communist Party, which has close ties with the Burmese military. The Apple Daily reported on July 7 that it is difficult to verify what Beijing has done behind the coup in Myanmar. But it is a well-known fact that Beijing is in cahoots with the Burmese military.
There are two major signals before and after the coup, indicating that the Chinese Communist Party is behind the coup. First, on the eve of the coup, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi visited Myanmar and met with Myanmar Armed Forces Commander-in-Chief Min Aung Hlaing.
According to official media reports, Wang Yi made a gesture of goodwill to Min Aung Hlaing, saying that the Chinese Communist Party and Myanmar are “brothers”. Min Aung Hlaing, on the other hand, directly told Wang Yi that there was fraud in the November 2020 general election in Burma and said he would take action. The official media did not disclose how Wang Yi responded at the time.
Second, after the coup, the UN Security Council discussed the political situation in Myanmar, and the Chinese Communist Party opposed the adoption of a statement condemning the military coup in Myanmar, publicly demonstrating Beijing’s attitude.
Lee Yang-hee, the former UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in Burma and now a professor at Seoul University in South Korea, believes that the coup in Burma should have been supported by the CCP and that Beijing tacitly approved or encouraged the Burmese military to stage the coup.
Azeem Ibrahim, director of the U.S. Center for Global Policy, recently wrote in Foreign Policy that the coup in Burma may have had the tacit approval and support of the Chinese Communist Party to turn Burma into a pariah state and bring it into the camp of an authoritarian state.
He argues that Wang Yi’s meeting with military chief Min Aung Hlaing may have been a key moment in deciding the coup in Burma, and that Beijing may have unspokenly expressed its support in advance.
Anders Corr, director of Corr Analytics and publisher of Political Risk magazine, said the meeting was a key moment in Beijing’s decision to take the coup. If a coup can happen in Myanmar, it can happen anywhere, says Anders Corr, publisher of Political Risk and director of Corr Analytics. It could be part of Beijing’s strategic setup in Southeast Asia, a blow to global democracies.
Corr called for the U.S. to sanction the Chinese Communist Party, which would help address the root causes of the problem.
Outsiders believe that Myanmar is not only called by the Chinese Communist Party its backyard and Belt and Road frontier, but also a crucial strategic stronghold.
Burma has long been China’s gateway to the Indian Ocean. When The Japanese invaded China during World War II, the then Republic of China government relied on the National Army’s expedition to Burma to open up a lifeline and receive military supplies from the allies.
The Chinese Communist Party strongly supported the Burmese Communist Party’s military seizure of power in the 1960s and 1970s, and even trained members of the Burmese Communist Party and its generals in places such as Yunchuan. While Burma was globally isolated during the military government, Beijing supported Burma and established oil pipelines and transportation lines connecting Yunnan and the port of Kyaukpyu, Burma’s deepest port.
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