A Short History of China and Southeast Asia
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diplomacy had proved more effective than military alliance. The problem of the presence of Chinese Nationalist troops in Shan st ...
and China was forced to accept the return of almost 100 000 displaced Chinese.^10 The Sino–Indonesian treaty on dual nationality ...
agreement was signed, along with a ten-year Treaty of Friendship and Mutual Non-Aggression. The agreement was generous in that B ...
similar to the one concluded earlier with Burma. When Sihanouk terminated the American aid program three years later, China incr ...
territory. This was enough for Beijing, since it would eliminate any American military threat from Laos. Hanoi, too, made no obj ...
because the Great Leap Forward was ideologically driven and an eco- nomic disaster; the latter because leaders in Southeast Asia ...
the Great Leap Forward, but China was denied the status it so desired of belonging to the nuclear club. Beijing immediately moun ...
The political discontent of the late 1950s in Indonesia culmi- nated in Sukarno’s decision, in July 1959, to replace parliamenta ...
army and orthodox Muslim fears of Chinese subversion and commu- nist revolution. Both external and internal factors contributed ...
presided over a secret meeting in southern China, bringing together the leaders of the DRV, the Pathet Lao, and the PKI (represe ...
Chinese had been supplying the People’s Army of Vietnam (PAVN) since 1956 when the government of South Vietnam, with American ba ...
before US President John F. Kennedy, too, was assassinated), to the aftermath of the fall of Nikita Khrushchev in October 1964, ...
and send ‘volunteer’ pilots to engage US warplanes. No pilots arrived, and China stipulated that its anti-aircraft units were to ...
the Tet offensive, about which the Chinese were ambivalent, failed in its military objectives but succeeded in undermining whate ...
concerned as insurgency broke out in the north and northeast of the country, backed by the strident Voice of the People of Thail ...
at Geneva in 1954, the immediate effect was that China gained inter- national standing. Over the next decade, more than forty co ...
States against the Soviet Union. In between, in the 1960s, Beijing attempted to go its own self-reliant way. The lesson from thi ...
Not only were the two superpowers reluctant to make way for China, in Southeast Asia nationalist elites were unimpressed by Chin ...
characteristic, predisposed Rangoon to accommodate all but the most abrupt changes in the direction of Chinese foreign policy. R ...
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