CNI News

10 May 2025

There are ongoing pressures from the SAC and China, and those pressures are affecting the people more than their organization, said Col. Tar Pan La, Joint General Secretary (2) of the TNLA. 

He made the remarks at a press conference held by the TNLA on May 4, 2025.

"The pressure is ongoing, which is having a severe impact on the public. Starting in January 2024, SAC has blocked all routes from lower Myanmar to northern Shan State, and also all routes from northern Shan State to lower Myanmar. It is made in the form of a Four Cuts pattern. (The name Four Cuts refers to the cuts in four types of support: food, funding, information, and recruitment.) This is why the people face difficulties in traveling, trading, and solving food and living problems. In the same way, China also has carried out. As the people living in the Chinese border are making a living based on the border, blocking the border adversely affect the people. Pressures from China and the SAC mainly affect the public." said Col. Tar Pan La.

While seeing the public meeting with the TNLA

The Kokang forces, which had seized Lashio and begun administration, were forced to hand over Lashio to the SAC on April 21, 2025, due to Chinese intervention. 

There are speculations that the TNLA may hand over some of the townships it has captured to the SAC as a result of this incident. Col. Ta Pan La, Joint General Secretary (2) of the TNLA, said that the transfer of Lashio has caused harm to the Ta’ang people.

A comrade of the TNLA

“The Lashio incident has affected our region. In particular, there are Ta’ang people and Ta’ang communities in Lashio. We have also heard that they are affected there.I heard that there are many restrictions on public movement, shopping, buying food, and buying equipment. "he said.

The SAC and the TNLA met to discuss the issue thanks to China's mediation, but the differences in approaches to Myanmar politics between China and the TNLA led to differences in finding solutions, said the TNLA. 

Delegates from the Myanmar Tatmadaw and the TNLA met in Kunming, China, on April 28-29, 2025, but the talks ended without reaching an agreement. The two sides agreed to meet again in August this year.