Re <<The ‘cleansing’ would include 75% of its top political and security apparatus who profit mightily from cartel work.>>
same in Myanmar, the profit goes partly to the top
but this time the police in China wanted all members of the four crime families that ordinarily the military govt of Myanmar would be protecting, and that is why the 4-families felt okay in their carved out territories along the border,
and
the police in China wanted bodies for DNA test,
and
wanted the military govt of Myanmar to do the wet-work,
in exchange, the military govt gets a pass.
A further detail, ...
no more casinos, human trafficking, and on-line scams targeting China.
now that the pandemic is over, consider reviving old businesses (cough cough .... drugs) in the away directions
and one more almost sure set of possibilities,
state to state mineral businesses, and leasing of land, and play positive roles for Belt & Road that be maritime security, mining, oil / gas, gold, jade, ..., and yes, all the residual / minor ethnic Chinese gangsters might do well to get ready to help with reunification of PRC / ROC on the likely winning side.
The ethnic Chinese gangsters are still part of the civil war. Way back when ROC troops relocated to Myanmar under CIA / UK auspices library.fes.de
Trouble in the Golden Triangle: The United States, Taiwan and the 93rd Nationalist Division
But of course, you should have guessed :0)
Just google "burma golden triangle KMT troops CIA" and see that the issues of opium, failed-state Burma, ... (and hack, for all we know, fentanyl) and the popularisation of opium in US, and Taiwan ROC vs Mainland PRC has the imprint of CIA al over them
en.wikipedia.org
The KMT army in Burma could not have expanded as it did without the logistical support from the United States, Thailand and Taiwan, as well as the financial support derived from the KMT's involvement in the region's opium trade. The United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) was the primary agency in charge of the covert program called " Operation Paper" that transported weapons and supplies to the KMT from Taiwan via Thailand. [9] With President Truman's approval and support from Thailand's Prime Minister Plaek Phibunsongkhram, the CIA put together a secret air supply network that shipped weapons and supplies to General Li Mi's forces in Mong Hsat from Thailand. The first shipments started in early 1951, when unmarked C-46 and C-47 aircraft were making at least five parachute drops a week. By late 1951, the KMT repaired the old airstrip at Mong Hsat constructed by the Allied forces during World War II. The enlarged airstrip could handle large four-engine aircraft and allowed the KMT troops to obtain newly manufactured American weapons from Taiwan. CIA advisers also accompanied the KMT army in the Yunnan invasion in May 1951, and some of them were killed during the offensive. [8] When KMT guerillas retreated into Kokang, the Burmese government obtained the assistance of Olive Yang and the Kokang Kakweye to force the Kuomintang forces out of Kokang. [10]:?104? Yang and the Kokang Kakweye succeeded in 1953, but then collaborated with the Kuomintang in trafficking opium to Thailand throughout the 1950s; the Kuomintang continued to use these opium routes for decades. [10]:?104?
From CIA's own file / website cia.gov
CIF INVOLVEMENT IN NARCOTICS TRAFFICKING
theworld.org
They were CIA-backed Chinese rebels. Now you’re invited to their once-secret hideaway. Former CIA-backed guerrillas — rivals of Chairman Mao Zedong — are now embracing the tourism industry, years after setting up the arteries and networks that sustain the Golden Triangle drug trade to this day. cambridge.org
Few studies on the legacies of the Chinese Civil War have examined its effects on state consolidation in the borderland area between China and mainland South-East Asia. This paper empirically examines the impact of the intrusion of the defeated Kuomingtang (KMT) into the borderland area between China, Burma and Thailand. In the People's Republic of China (PRC), the presence of the US-supported KMT across its Yunnan border increased the new communist government's threat perceptions. In response, Beijing used a carrot-and-stick approach towards consolidating its control by co-opting local elites while ruthlessly eliminating any opposition deemed to be in collusion with the KMT. In the case of Burma, the KMT presence posed a significant challenge to Burmese national territorial integrity and effectively led to the fragmentation of the Burmese Shan State. Finally, in Thailand, Bangkok collaborated with the Americans in support of the KMT to solidify its alliance relations. Later, Thailand used the KMT as a buffer force for its own border defence purposes against a perceived communist infiltration from the north. This paper contextualizes the spill-over effects of the Chinese Civil War in terms of the literature on how external threats can potentially facilitate state consolidation.
The solution above obviously would not work for USA in / on Mexico, I agree, and that is why not even seriously tried. Invasion might work.
The reason the Myanmar generals acted against their erstwhile friends in the jungle is that they prefer to do the needed wet-work as opposed to having wet-work done to them by enthusiastic underlings.
Myanmar is simply China's borderlands, as is Mexico USA's, iow nothing happens without explicit permission-ing, a guess. |
