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China Brokers Peace Talks Between Myanmar's Military Government and Ethnic Rebel Alliance

The Three Brotherhood Alliance, engaged in fierce combat with the military government, has disrupted cross-border trade and threatens further political destabilization of Myanmar.

  • China has brokered peace talks between Myanmar's military government and the Three Brotherhood Alliance, an alliance of ethnic minority armed groups.
  • The Three Brotherhood Alliance has been engaged in fierce combat with Myanmar's military government, posing the greatest battlefield challenge since the military seized power in 2021.
  • The fighting, which is concentrated along Myanmar's border with China, has disrupted cross-border trade and threatens further political destabilization of Myanmar.
  • The alliance has claimed widespread victories, including the seizure of more than 200 military posts and four border crossing points controlling crucial trade with China.
  • One of the alliance's goals is to rid the region of major organized criminal enterprises, including cyberscam operations controlled by Chinese investors in collusion with local Myanmar warlords.
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