China To Stage Live-Fire Military Drills Along The Myanmar Border

China said it will hold live-fire military exercises along its tense border with Myanmar, where an ongoing ethnic conflict has spilled across into China. In this photo, rebel soldiers of Myanmar National Democratic Alliance Army (MNDAA) gather at a military base in Kokang region, March 11, 2015. Reuters

Deutsche Welle: China to hold live-fire drills near Myanmar border

China's Defense Ministry has said the military will hold live-firing drills near the Myanmar border. The exercise will take place near to where stray bombs from a Myanmar warplane recently killed five Chinese.

The ministry said the drills would begin on Tuesday in Yunnan province and would include both ground and air weaponry, but gave no details as to troop numbers or duration.

The mountainous area where the exercise will be carried out on China's southwestern border is directly across from Myanmar's northeastern Shan state, where government troops are battling an ethnic insurgency by Kokang rebels.

WNU Editor: This is China's way of warning Myanmar that their conflict with rebels in the region must stay in Myanmar and not cross into Chinese territory.

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Myanmar Apologizes To China For Deadly Airstrike

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi (3rd R) holds talks with Myanmar Foreign Minister U Wunna Maung Lwin (3rd L) in Beijing, capital of China, April 2, 2015. U Wunna Maung Lwin is paying a visit to China as Myanmar President U Thein Sein's special envoy. (Xinhua/Ding Lin)

The Diplomat: Myanmar Apologizes to China for Deadly Strike

Myanmar’s government accepted responsibility for a bomb that killed five Chinese citizens.

On March 13, a bomb fell on a sugarcane field in China’s Yunnan province, just across the border from Myanmar. The explosion killed five Chinese villagers and injured eight others. Beijing immediately blamed the Myanmar Air Force for the bombing and promised China’s own military would take “resolute action” to defend its citizens from harm. Myanmar’s government has been fighting Kokang rebels in the northeast since February 2015.

On April 2, Myanmar’s foreign minister, U Wunna Maung Lwin, officially apologized for the bombing, “On behalf of the Myanmar government and military, I officially apologize to China and express my deep sympathy to the families of the victims and the injured,” he told his Chinese counterpart, Wang Yi.

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Myanmar apologizes to China for warplane bombing in Yunnan -- CCTV
China says Myanmar apologizes for bombing, admits responsibility -- Reuters
China says Myanmar apologizes for deadly border bombing, agrees to discuss compensation -- FOX News/AP
Myanmar Admits Warplane Accidentally Killed Chinese Farmers -- VOA
Myanmar Acknowledges Deadly China Bombing With Official Apology -- Bloomberg

China Warns That It Will Take 'Decisive' Steps If Myanmar Repeats Raid That Killed 5 Chinese Farmers

Wall Street Journal: China Deploys Forces to Myanmar Border After Bombing

Four Chinese are killed as violence in Myanmar spills over border.

BEIJING—Beijing sent forces to patrol its southwestern border with Myanmar after a bomb killed four Chinese citizens in an area where violence between Burmese rebel groups and troops has spread and strained ties with China.

On Sunday, Chinese Premier Li Keqiang expressed Beijing’s dismay at the fighting that has sent hundreds fleeing across China’s border. Mr. Li called Friday’s bombing “deeply distressing” and said China would take measures to ensure the safety of Chinese citizens living near the area.

“We have the responsibility and the capacity to firmly safeguard stability in the border areas between the two countries and protect the life and property of our people,” Mr. Li said during a nationally televised news conference.

WNU editor: Myanmar has been warned .... I suggest that they better listen.

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China's premier says able to defend border with Myanmar -- Reuters
China turns up heat on Myanmar as conflict spills into Yunnan -- Want China Times
Myanmar expresses regret over border bombing incident -- Xinhuanet
Myanmar denies bombing within Chinese borders -- Al Jazeera
Myanmar Blames Bombing in China on ‘Ethnic Group,’ Not Military -- Bloomberg
Myanmar denies killing Chinese nationals -- The Hindu
Tensions Rise Between Myanmar, China After Deadly Air Raid -- VOA

China Sends Military Jets To The Myanmar Border After Bombing Raid Kills 4 Chinese Nationals

Deutsche Welle: China protests Myanmar bombing on its territory, sends jets to border

Beijing has sent fighter jets to its border and summoned Myanmar's ambassador after a Yangon airstrike within China killed four citizens. The bombing was part of Myanmar's offensive against rebels in its north.

Fighter jets monitored China's border to Myanmar on Saturday after a bomb from a Myanmar aircraft hit a sugarcane field in the Chinese border city of Lincang and killed four people. Nine others were injured, news agency Xinhua reported.

The strike, which came as Yangon's forces were battling rebels in the north at the Chinese border, followed a similar incident some days back when a stray shell from Myanmar exploded in Chinese territory.

The jets were sent to "track, monitor, warn and chase away" Myanmar military aircraft flying near the shared border, news agency DPA quoted the Chinese Air Force spokesman Shen Jinke as saying.

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China Lodges Protest After Myanmar Air Raid Kills Four -- VOA
Myanmar Air Force Bomb Kills 4 In Chinese Village, China Steps Up Security -- IBTimes
China warns Myanmar of ‘decisive action’ after border tension -- The Hindu

Myanmar Has Accidentally Bombed A Chinese Village While Battling Kokang Rebels

A map showing the location of Burma's Kokang region. Graphic: RFA

Washington Times: Myanmar bombed Chinese village

A Myanmar government MiG-29 fighter plane on March 8 flew over a Chinese village in the border province of Yunnan and dropped a bomb on a house believed to be a safe haven for the Kokang rebels. No major casualty was announced by either the Chinese or the Burmese side.

Witnesses at the site reported that the MiG-29 fighter jet flew at low altitude over the Chinese village known as Mengding, causing pandemonium among the villagers watching the tense firefight on the other side of the border between Myanmar government forces and the Kokang rebels. A Chinese ground intelligence agent has been cited by official Chinese news media as saying that Myanmar attack helicopters also were involved in the fight against the rebels.

WNU Editor: This has the potential of exploding into something bigger .... China has been keeping the lid on its news coverage of this conflict .... they cannot now. Expect announcements in the next few days (if not sooner) of Chinese military movements near this border region.

More News On Reports That Myanmar Has Bombed A Chinese Village

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Myanmar May Have Just Bombed Chinese Territory: Now What? -- Ankit Panda, The Diplomat
Myanmar Government Bombs Fall in China's Yunnan, Sparking Forest Fires -- Radio Free Asia
China angered as Myanmar fighting spills over border -- Reuters
Poppies, Power and Politics in Myanmar’s Kokang Conflict -- VOA

China Rushes Troops To The Burmese Border As Fighting Escalates Between Burmese Forces And Kachin Rebels

China Sends Troops To Burmese Border -- Voice of America

China has sent soldiers to its border with Myanmar amid concern that escalating violence between the Southeast Asian country's government and ethnic separatists is spilling over, an official Chinese newspaper reported on Friday.

The Global Times said that troops were sent to the border between China's Yunnan Province and Myanmar's northern Kachin State "to understand the situation". It did not give any details on the number or type of soldiers.

"On the night of the 9th, there was shelling in Kachin, and residents of the unstable area quickly ran inside the Chinese border to pass the night in peace," the report said. Yunnan is home to an ethnic Kachin population.

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Update: A wider war looms in Myanmar -- Bertil Lintner, Asia Times

My Comment: The war is escalating in Myanmar .... the Chinese see it, and are responding accordingly.