Posted on 02/02/2022 10:38:08 AM PST by MAGA2017
Barbed wire, lights and cameras spring up, changing life for locals and making trade cumbersome
An extensive buildup of barriers along China’s 3,000-mile southern border is under way, according to public documents, official statements and interviews with residents, ostensibly to battle Covid-19 but with likely long-lasting ramifications on trade and travel.
The small Chinese city of Ruili, in the far south next to Myanmar, has seen a major construction project in the past two years. It is a border fence equipped with barbed wire, surveillance cameras and sensors.
Farther east, along China’s border with Vietnam, a 12-foot-high fence went up abruptly last year. It stops Vietnamese locals from heading to Chinese villages to harvest corn or sell medicinal herbs, and it looks like a prison, said Sung A Ho, a hotelier in Vietnam’s mountainous Lao Cai province.
The avowed purpose is to fight the spread of Covid-19 by limiting the entry of traders, workers and smugglers. The Southern Great Wall, people on social media are calling it. State media outlets have dubbed it the Anti-Covid Great Wall.
The efforts are part of a wider drive by China to secure its borders, facilitate infrastructure projects and prevent refugees from crossing into China, said Karin Dean of Tallinn University in Estonia, who studies the border dynamics between China and Myanmar.
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Meanwhile thousands of Chinese diaspora, in addition to hundreds of thousands of others, descend upon our’s.
Thanks, Pres Xiden.
Everyone’s wall seems to work except ours.
Well that’s one way for China to keep its citizens from leaving.
Smugglers run the Vietnam-China border. Fences won’t stop them, nor will the PLA which participates in the lucrative ‘trade’.
Meanwhile thousands of Chinese diaspora, in addition to hundreds of thousands of others, descend upon our’s.
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Not to mention the Army Division’s worth of Russians that crossed last year.
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