SHANGHAI (Reuters) – China’s navy will start “fight coaching actions” from Saturday on its facet of the border with Myanmar, it stated on social media, a day after a convoy of vans carrying items into the neighbouring Southeast Asian nation went up in flames.
The incident, which Myanmar state media known as an rebel assault, got here amid insecurity issues in China, whose envoy met high officers in Myanmar’s capital for talks on border stability after current indicators of uncommon pressure of their ties.
The coaching goals to “check the speedy maneuverability, border sealing and hearth strike capabilities of theatre troops,” the Southern Theatre Command, considered one of 5 in China’s Individuals’s Liberation Military, stated on the WeChat messaging app.
The transient assertion gave no particulars of timing or numbers of troops.
Friday’s hearth within the city of Muse got here as Myanmar’s navy has misplaced management of a number of cities and navy outposts within the northeast and elsewhere because it battles the most important co-ordinated offensive it has confronted since seizing energy in a 2021 coup.
The surge in preventing has displaced greater than 2 million folks in Myanmar, the United Nations says.
(Reporting by Casey Corridor; Modifying by Clarence Fernandez)
