Yang further pointed out that because Taiwan does not have diplomatic ties with Myanmar, the commission is not as motivated to support Chinese in this region.
"Textbooks from Taiwan are so few that we have to make copies of them -- mostly of poor quality and hardly legible -- to give to the students," said Yang.
All copies of these books are made in black and white. This sometimes makes learning difficult and dull, Yang said. "The Myanmar government bans all color printing in order to make it harder for money to be counterfeited," Yang added.
He also said many Chinese students in Myanmar cannot afford textbooks.
"It is quite common for all the kids in one family to share a single textbook," he said, "So the students' textbooks are always worn and shoddy."
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