(Beijing/Naipi Comprehensive News) Myanmar transfers more than a hundred telecommunications network fraud suspects to China, and it is transferred to nearly 1,500 people back and forth.Some analysts pointed out that the joint crackdown on telecommunications fraud has warmed China -Myanmar relations.
Xinhua News Agency reported that Yunnan Pu'er Public Security Organs and the relevant local law enforcement departments in Myanmar continued to carry out border police cooperation. Last Saturday (September 16), another 109 telecommunications network fraud suspects and a group of crimes were transferred to China.
Reporting that there were 1,482 suspects involved in fraud in northern Myanmar, of which 58 fugitives were online, squeezing the survival space of overseas fraud.
The South China Morning Post last Friday (15th) quoted observer analysis that the wave of cyber crime arrest in Myanmar was a sign of improvement of China -Myanmar relations.
Analysis believes that Myanmar has been in a political crisis since the coup in 2021. The Myanmar military government, which is in an internationally isolated state, has been working hard to seek relationships with the world, and China -Myanmar joint operations have provided opportunities for this.
Benjamin Ho, assistant professor of Nanyang University of Technology in Singapore, said in an interview with the South China Morning Post that Myanmar needs China's support internationally, and the common strategic interests of the two countries will compete against the West.
Amara Thiha, a researcher at Oslo Peace Research Institute, said that the crackdown on cyber crimes occupied an important position in Beijing's agenda.China is the proposed of global security initiative. China ’s relatively successful measures are conducive to strengthening cooperation with countries with the Mekong River Basin, indicating that China is“ filling gaps in the global security structure and showing its leadership position ”in the region.
China -Myanmar joint operations have also attracted Taiwan's attention.The Taiwan China Times Sunday (September 17) reported that about the 1,207 suspects who transferred to mainland China on the 8th of this month, about 20 % and nearly 300 Taiwanese suspects were transferred.The Taiwan Criminal Bureau subsequently stated that it has been verified to mainland China through cooperation between cross -strait cooperation to jointly crack down on the criminal mechanism. There is no suspect of Taiwanese status and will pay close attention to the development of the case.
