China building a barbed-wire fence along its southern border with Myanmar

16 December 2020
China building a barbed-wire fence along its southern border with Myanmar
 A barbed-wire fence built by China on its southern border with Myanmar in 2020. Chinese media reports say the fence has helped to prevent imported cases of COVID-19. Photo: WeChat

China is in the process of building a barbed-wire fence along its 1,300-mile southern border with Myanmar to prevent illegal crossings, Newsweek reported quoting recent reports.

Social media images from the town of Wanding and the city of Ruili—both in China's southwestern Yunnan Province—show 6- to 9-foot barbed-wire metal fences separating the two countries, the Newsweek reported said quoting Radio Free Asia (RFA).

While media reports in China say the boundary fence has helped prevent illegal crossings and by extension COVID-19 outbreaks, the RFA report said it could also keep Chinese dissidents from fleeing the country.