Myanmar Says Chinese ‘COVID-19’ Fence Breaches Border Agreement
A barbed-wire fence laid by China on the border with Myanmar. / WeChat
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By Nan Lwin Hnin Pwint 23 December 2020
Yangon China is erecting a barbed-wire fence along its border with Myanmar to prevent unregistered migrants from spreading COVID-19 but the Naypyitaw authorities claim it encroaches on the neutral buffer zone.
China started erecting the fence in October along the border in Kachin and Shan states.
“The fence is not along the entire border, largely just in populous areas,” said U Thein Min Tun, the boundary director of the Consular and Legal Affairs Department at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.