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Bryan Tun has messaged his father only once since February, when a brutal coup swept the military to power in Myanmar, resulting in more than 700 civilian deaths.
âHey Dad,â he wrote to his father, Pwint San, who accepted the post of minister of commerce in the Myanmar militaryâs illegitimate new government, âif you donât quit, youâre going to lose me as your son forever.â
âYou are not killing anyone, but you are employed by killers. You took a position given to you by killers.â
The reply came: âSon, I know how you are feeling right now. But thereâs nothing I can do to change that. The only thing that I can do is to pray for things to get better.â
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Anti-China outrage pulls Beijing into Myanmar coup crisis
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Chinese factories torched as mainland workers hunker down under martial law Beijing is being pulled into the ulcerous crisis in Myanmar, an unravelling country it had carefully stitched into its big plans for Asia.
During a January 2020 visit to Myanmar, Chinese President Xi Jinping elevated the Southeast Asian neighbour to country of shared destiny status, Beijing s highest diplomatic stripe.
The aim was to nudge Myanmar decisively towards China and away from the United States and drive through projects worth billions of dollars under the Belt and Road Initiative, including an oil and gas pipeline and a port to the Indian Ocean.
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