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This week, the regime faced pressure from a border dispute involving Myanmar’s most powerful ethnic army, while kowtowing even further to Beijing. Can China Help Myanmar Junta Recapture Northern Shan State?. China threw Myanmar’s regime a diplomatic lifeline by welcoming junta boss Min Aung Hlaing to a regional summit this month. 

Rumors now swirl about potential military & economic assistance from Beijing. China has been treading lightly both in"l & junta domestic hostility to regime, it appears Min Aung Hlaing returned w/some valuable China promises to regime supporters, foreign observers has traditionally viewed armed organizations along Chinese border as Beijing’s puppets.

China pressured groups in northern Myanmar to sign the 2015 Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement, participate in the Union Peace Conference and work with Myanmar’s military. The armed groups instead formed the Federal Political Negotiation and Consultative Committee to respond collectively to China’s pressure.

Op 1027, launched in October last year, caused a rift between China & northern armed groups. The organizations initially tried to please Beijing by cracking down on online fraud syndicates operating along border. But Beijing now chosen to back regime & forced the armed groups to sign a truce in January this year to end the regime’s series of humiliating defeats.
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