据香港英文媒体《南华早报》报道,11月19日,在中国外交部例行记者会上,法新社记者问到了有关缅甸民族民主同盟军领导人彭德仁一些传言的问题,外交部发言人林剑回答说:“缅甸民族民主同盟军的领导人彭德仁此前申请来中国看病,现正在治疗和疗养。(Peng Deren, the leader of Myanmar’s National Democratic Alliance
Army, had previously applied to come to China for medical treatment and is now
undergoing treatment and recuperation)”