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China Delivers Thinly Veiled Rebuke to Myanmar Junta Boss Chinese Foreign Minister Delivers Thinly Veiled Rebuke to Myanmar Junta Boss August 15, 2024 

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi warned Myanmar junta boss Min Aung Hlaing on Wednesday that Beijing would not accept comments intended to harm bilateral ties or “smear” China, according to a statement released by the Chinese Embassy in Myanmar after the two met in Naypyitaw.

Wang visited Myanmar on Wednesday traveling
from China’s did not bother to meet the junta boss when he attended the 7th edition of the Lancang-Mekong Cooperation Foreign Ministers’ Meeting in Bagan, Mandalay Region in 2022.

Beijing apparently thought it should deliver an in-person warning to junta boss after Min Aung Hlaing repeatedly implied China is behind anti-regime military operations in northern Shan State
after the Brotherhood Alliance of three ethnic armies win the offensive against the regime in northern Shan State, Min Aung Hlaing alleged anti-regime groups were using China-made drones to bomb junta positions there, said foreign technicians were assisting groups. Following that outburst, junta-backed nationalists staged anti-Beijing protests in downtown Yangon and outside the Chinese Embassy in the city, the junta boss claimed in televised that certain foreign countries were funding anti-regime armed groups, he claimed ordnance factories built in territory controlled by ethnic armed organizations on the China-Myanmar border were selling weapons to anti-regime groups, and alleged weapons seized from People’s Defense Force resistance groups had been traced to those factories.

A meeting published by junta media drew mockery  critics by regime boss essentially treated Chinese foreign minister as his equal—despite recently assuming title of acting president of Myanmar—by sitting side-by-side with Wang b4 the Palin (throne), symbol of Myanmar’s sovereignty.