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Financial Times (17 February 2021)

Members of a nationwide civil disobedience motion opposing Myanmar’s coup are venting their anger at China, which protesters accuse of serving to the generals who overthrew Aung San Suu Kyi. 

Anti-coup demonstrators have massed exterior the Chinese embassy in Yangon over the previous week, holding placards attacking Beijing or displaying President Xi Jinping dangling senior General Min Aung Hlaing, the junta chief, by marionette strings. 

Activists have in latest days launched an internet marketing campaign to boycott Chinese merchandise. Some have even referred to as for assaults on the pure fuel pipeline linking China’s Yunnan province to Myanmar’s port of Kyaukphyu, a flagship infrastructure venture.

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