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China is building border walls with Vietnam and Myanmar to keep people out, but also in
Border closures have become a key feature of the COVID-19 era, but China’s decision to reinforce border walls with its South-East Asian neighbours has stirred up fresh controversy.
Key points:
- China strengthens borders with Vietnam and Myanmar
- Beijing says the aim is to target smuggling and control COVID-19
- Experts say the walls are there to curb the outflow of migrants and dissidents
US President Donald Trump gained world-wide attention when he announced his plan in 2015 to build a 1,609-kilometre long “beautiful border wall” in an effort to keep Mexican migrants out of the US.
But on the other side of the Pacific, China is working on its own lesser-known projects along the borders of Vietnam and Myanmar.
“It looks like a national program,”…
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