BEIJING: China will hold air defence and live-fire drills near its border with Myanmar from Wednesday, state media said, in this month’s second round of such exercises as fighting between Myanmar’s ruling junta and rebel forces intensifies.
The drills follow a significant escalation of the conflict last week, when rebel forces captured the Myanmar town of Myawaddy, a key trading outpost near the Thai border, prompting a stream of refugees into Thailand.State broadcaster CCTV said this week’s drills, by China’s Southern Theater Command, formed part of an annual training exercise, without referring to the fighting in the neighbouring nation.
But Myanmar’s northern border with China had been relatively calm since ceasefire talks that Beijing brokered in January.This month’s earlier land and air drills at the Myanmar border also featured no mention of direct links to the conflict in the neighbour’s north. “It is the responsibility of the to safeguard border security,” it added on its website at the time of the drill, which did not involve air force units.
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