China summons Myanmar diplomat after bomb kills four
Source: aljazeera
China has summoned the Myanmar ambassador for a meeting in Beijing after a bomb from a Myanmar warplane fell in Chinese territory, killing four people in a sugarcane field, according to Chinas foreign ministry.
The incident occurred on Friday as Myanmar government forces have ramped up their battle in recent weeks against ethnic Chinese rebels in the country's Kokang region bordering China.
China has warned Myanmar to "lower the temperature," and the fighting has forced thousands of people, many of them ethnic Chinese, to flee from Myanmar into Chinas southwestern Yunnan province.
Newspapers in Myanmar reported that government forces launched airstrikes against the rebels and heavy clashes took place near the border.
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Pipelines not far away ?
On the 29th of January, China opened, with little fanfare, a new oil link through Myanmar. Despite its low profile, this project has clearly been a huge undertaking, both technologically and politically. This 2,400km long pipeline runs through some of the most rugged areas on the planet, marked by jagged hills and ridges and dense jungle. On top of that, two stretches of the pipeline traverse two of Southeast Asias political hotspots, the Rakhine and Shan States, which retain semi-autonomous armies that have only just recently been nominally pacified.
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