The border at Wanding, China, has a short bridge that connects the end of the famous "Burma Road" to Myanmar. The man under the umbrella is a border guard. It's all very quaint. And the ease with which people move between the two countries makes it easy to see why Burmese heroin has become so abundant in this part of China, leading to the country's largest pocket of HIV infection--and an aggressive new campaign to stop its spread. |
