Junta has defense blueprint against China

Written by S.H.A.N.
Monday, 15 March 2010 15:07

China may have been one of the first countries to recognize the military that took power in 1988
and likely the most influential foreign power in Burma, but that does not mean Burma’s generals
are off their guards against its giant neighbor, according a  top secret defense plan drawn by the
Lashio-based Northeastern Region Command.

The 120 page plan was designed in 1997 by Maj Gen Tin Ngwe, then the regional commander,
9 years after the current military junta came into power after a bloody coup.

In the event of war, China will be facing 3 military regional commands: Northern (Myitkyina),
Northeastern (Lashio) and Triangle (Kengtung) along the 1,357 miles (2,171 km) front.

The rationale for the blueprint was four-fold:

- Following the disintegration of the Soviet Union, China has emerged as the only world
power that has the capacity to pit its forces against the United States

- China has been making unceasing efforts to become the most powerful country in Asia

- Burma offers an outlet to the Indian Ocean for China’s landlocked southwest

- Burma makes an ideal buffer zone for China in preventing hostile powers from occupying
it as a foothold

“China’s strategic needs might lead to occupation of Burma and making the country its satellite
state,” it says.

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Junta has defense blueprint against China

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Monday, 15 March 2010 15:07

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