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China Issues Death Sentences to 5 Members of Myanmar Gang

China sentenced five people to death on Tuesday for their involvement in a violent criminal gang with fraud operations in Myanmar's Kokang region along the border, state media reported. Scam compounds have flourished in Myanmar's lawless borderlands, staffed by foreigners -- ...

Myanmar Fighters Agree China-Brokered Pullout From Ruby Town

One of Myanmar's most powerful ethnic armed opposition factions has agreed to a China-brokered withdrawal from a lucrative ruby mining hub, the group said on Wednesday. Myanmar has been mired in a civil war since the military grabbed power in a ...

More than 2,000 Arrests in Raid on Notorious Scam Hub in Myanmar

Myanmar’s army said more than 2,000 people were arrested in a raid on KK Park, a notorious center for telecom scams close to the Thai border. The military reportedly also seized thirty terminals used to connect the center to Elon Musk’s Starlink satellite internet network. ...

China Boasts of Crackdown on Scam Centers on Myanmar Border

Chinese authorities are boasting of a sweeping crackdown on scam centers across the country's southern border with Myanmar, days before a key political meeting in Beijing. Government statements published since Wednesday mention the arrests of more than 57,000 Chinese citizens for ...

Myanmar Junta Recaptures Town on China Trade Rout

Myanmar's ruling junta said Saturday that it had recaptured a town on a trade highway to China from an ethnic armed group in the country's war-wracked north. Following a 16-day operation, "on 16 October, Tatmadaw reoccupied Hsipaw completely," the state-run Global ...

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The Pain of Un-Polarity

“THE G2 WILL BE CONVENING SHORTLY!”
This post by U.S. President Donald Trump in the run-up to his meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping last week may end up leaving a more lasting mark than the actual summit he attended.

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Mass Arrests in Myanmar as Scam Gang Crackdown Heads to Court

More than 57,000 Chinese nationals have been arrested in Myanmar amid a mass crackdown on gangs running telecoms fraud operations, frequently staffed by victims of trafficking. China’s Ministry of Public Security announced the arrests on Wednesday and said they were carried ...

China Sentences 16 Myanmar-Linked Gang Members to Death

A Chinese court sentenced to death on Monday 16 members of a family-run criminal gang that established deadly scam centers in Myanmar's Kokang region on the border with China, among other crimes. Scam compounds have flourished in Myanmar's lawless borderlands, staffed ...

China Wins Myanmar’s Nod for Xi’s Global Plan, Seeks Closer Ties

Myanmar’s military leader, Senior General Min Aung Hlaing, said ties with China are at their strongest and pledged to deepen cooperation as the country faces political and economic pressure from major powers. Speaking to Chinese media and business representatives in ...

ASEAN Parliamentarians Call for China Meeting on Rohingya

ASEAN Parliamentarians for Human Rights (APHR), a body of current and former legislators from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), called for a conference involving the ten member countries of the bloc, Bangladesh, and China to resolve the longstanding problems facing the Rohingya ethnic minority.

How Pandemic Controls Still Shape Trade and Migration in a China–Myanmar Border City

A deeply reported story published on a WeChat public account specializing in literary reporting examines how pandemic-era border control policies in Ruili, once China’s busiest land port with Myanmar, have outlasted COVID-19 and devastated the city’s once-thriving jade trade while restricting the movement of cross-border migrant ...

Critical Minerals Weekly Digest

This is a free preview of the upcoming Critical Minerals Weekly Digest, part of the new CGSP Intelligence service launching in Summer 2025. This week’s developments underscore a clear shift in the critical minerals landscape, from fragmented exploration to full-spectrum geopolitical ...

Thousands of Chinese Fraud Suspects Repatriated from Myanmar

Around 5,400 Chinese nationals have been apprehended and repatriated to China following a cross-border crackdown on telecom scamming operations in the Myanmarese region of Myawaddy. The operation was jointly conducted by Chinese, Myanmarese, and Thai forces and follows growing cross-border coordination ...
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