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Myanmar protesters accuse China of backing coup plotters
Activists allege Beijing setting up ‘great firewall’ and call for boycott of Chinese products.
Since a week ago, Myanmar social media has been alight with rumours after a series of cargo flights confirmed by flight tracker websites from the Chinese city of Kunming landed in Yangon when the country’s airspace was restricted.
Protesters have speculated that the flights contained internet-blocking information technology software, or Chinese soldiers.
Anti-coup demonstrators have massed outside the Chinese embassy in Yangon over the past week, holding placards attacking Beijing or showing President Xi Jinping dangling senior General Min Aung Hlaing, the junta chief, by marionette strings.
Source: FT #Feb17
https://www.ft.com/content/43e6ecfe-081a-4390-aa18-154ec87ff764
#MyanmarCoup #ChinaBackMyanmarCoup #ChinaFireWall
Activists allege Beijing setting up ‘great firewall’ and call for boycott of Chinese products.
Since a week ago, Myanmar social media has been alight with rumours after a series of cargo flights confirmed by flight tracker websites from the Chinese city of Kunming landed in Yangon when the country’s airspace was restricted.
Protesters have speculated that the flights contained internet-blocking information technology software, or Chinese soldiers.
Anti-coup demonstrators have massed outside the Chinese embassy in Yangon over the past week, holding placards attacking Beijing or showing President Xi Jinping dangling senior General Min Aung Hlaing, the junta chief, by marionette strings.
Source: FT #Feb17
https://www.ft.com/content/43e6ecfe-081a-4390-aa18-154ec87ff764
#MyanmarCoup #ChinaBackMyanmarCoup #ChinaFireWall