Everywhere in Mong La, it is apparent that the Chinese owned everything. That we are in Myanmar is only an afterthought. The Shan woman is a rarity: a local who doesn’t work for someone from across the border. She gets her tiger bones from China’s breeding farms, where they raise tigers for their own tiger bone wine produced at an industrial scale. “It’s a tradition,” she says. “It makes your bones strong and your blood pump smoother.”
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