The renewed fighting in Myanmar hasdrawn close to the Chinese border in the past week, and Chinese media are reporting that the government of neighboring province in Yunnan is bracing for impact, moving troops to the border and preparing refugee camps to deal with an influx of refugees from the Kachin rebel-controlled areas (Kachin is the name of both the state in Myanmar and an ethnic group).

The China-Myanmar border is a particularly porous one: it is common for Chinese nationals to move to towns on the Burmese side to conduct trade, while members of Myanmar’s ethnic minorities cross the border unofficially as part of their daily lives. Yesterday, for instance, The People’s Daily did a story on a woman from Myanmar who illegally crosses into China each week to take advantage of lower vegetable prices.

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