China’s Assistant Minister of Public Security, Liu Zhongyi, traveled to the Thai border to meet a group of 300 trafficking victims recently rescued from a scam operation in the notorious Myanmarese town of Myawaddy. Liu would accompany hundreds of victims (held in a camp controlled by the Karen Border Guard Force militia after their rescue) back to China.

Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Guo Jiakun made the strongest statement about Beijing’s official cooperation on the scam issue so far: “China is carrying out active bilateral and multilateral cooperation with countries including Thailand and Myanmar. We have adopted various means to address both symptoms and the root cause and worked together to prevent lawbreakers from crossing borders.”