China Conducts Military Drills on Yunnan Border as Burma Conflict Heats Up

Published on August 29, 2024

The Chinese People’s Liberation Army has been holding live ammunition drills and armed patrols in west Yunnan Province near the China–Burma border as a civil war escalates in the neighboring country. The Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP’s) Southern Theater Command is holding a three-day joint exercise that started Aug. 27, according to a statement posted on its official WeChat account. The same command had conducted border armed patrols and joint-air ground police patrols in Yunnan’s Ruili and Zhenkang counties near Burma, also known as Myanmar, since Aug. 26. Intensified Conflict The civil war in Burma has intensified this year despite efforts by Beijing to exert its influence on both the Burmese military junta and rebel groups to maintain the stability of China’s economic interests in the Southeast Asian nation....

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