According to CCTV News and Xinhua News Agency, China, Myanmar, and Thailand held the second ministerial joint meeting in Naypyidaw, Myanmar, to redeploy joint efforts to combat telecommunications network fraud. The three countries agreed to deepen police cooperation, focusing on eradicating fraud parks such as Myawaddy, comprehensively arresting and repatriating those involved in fraud, and completely removing the roots of fraud crimes.
Since this year, China, Myanmar, and Thailand have jointly organized large-scale operations in Myawaddy, destroying fraud dens and repatriating over 5,400 Chinese nationals suspected of fraud, achieving a phased breakthrough. The meeting emphasized that it will continue to strengthen information sharing, cross-border law enforcement, and repatriation mechanisms to form a regular anti-fraud joint defense system.
Previously, the three countries had jointly carried out multiple rounds of anti-fraud operations in 2024, including the "Seagull Operation," successively destroying several fraud centers in northern Myanmar and arresting tens of thousands of people. In 2025, due to the Myanmar military's cooperation in cutting off electricity and the internet, the fraud parks were severely damaged.
The meeting also mentioned typical rescue cases, such as Chinese actor Wang Xing and model Zhong being deceived to go to the Thai-Myanmar border and then rescued, which triggered high-level cooperation and cross-border law enforcement attention among China, Thailand, and Myanmar.
Hofmann, the head of the UN Office on Drugs and Crime for Southeast Asia, pointed out that telecommunication fraud crimes are highly transnational and require sustained multinational cooperation. This meeting marks that the three countries will promote the normalization of specialized operations through police coordination, resource integration, and system docking, and resolutely eliminate the breeding grounds for telecommunication fraud along the borders of the three countries.
