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For the Cambodian defensive line, see K5 Plan.
Laos was allied with the United States, as the communist Pathet Lao did not take over the country until 1975. Also, North and South Vietnam had not yet been united. The boundaries of the now-independent former Soviet republics
are anachronistically shown for context.
Mao Zedong (Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party), Kim Il Sung (Chairman of the Workers' Party of Korea) and Ho Chi Minh (Chairman of the Communist Party of Vietnam) were the three emerging communist leaders in Asia at the beginning of the Cold War.

The bamboo curtain is a political demarcation between the communist states of East Asia, particularly the People's Republic of China, and the capitalist states of East, South, and Southeast Asia. To the north and northwest lay the communist states of China, Russia (the Soviet Union before 1991), North Vietnam, North Korea, and the Mongolian People's Republic. To the south and east lay the capitalist and non-communist countries of India, Pakistan, Japan, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, the Philippines, Thailand, Taiwan, South Korea, Hong Kong, and Macau. Before the Indochina Wars the non-communist bloc included French Indochina and its successor states South Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia. However, after the wars the new countries of Vietnam, Laos, and Democratic Kampuchea became communist states. In particular, following the Korean War, the Korean Demilitarized Zone became an important symbol of this Asian division (though the term bamboo curtain itself is rarely used in that specific context).[citation needed]

First Cold War (1947 – 1991)

The colorful term bamboo curtain was derived from

Cambodian regime was loyal to China. After the Korean War, North Korea avoided taking sides between the Soviets and China. (Since the end of a communist bloc in Asia, North Korea remains on good terms with both Russia and China, although relations between the countries have been strained in modern times.)[citation needed
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During the Cultural Revolution in China, the Chinese authorities put sections of the curtain under a lock-down of sorts, forbidding entry into or passage out of the country without permission from the Chinese government. Many would-be refugees attempting to flee to capitalist countries were prevented from escaping. Occasional relaxations led to several waves of refugees into the British crown colony of Hong Kong.[citation needed]

Improved relations between China and the United States during the later years of the Cold War rendered the term more or less obsolete,

USSR in Southeast Asia. Even today, the demilitarized zone separating North and South Korea is typically described as the DMZ. Until recently, bamboo curtain was used most often to refer to the enclosed borders and economy of Burma[2][3] (though this began to open in 2010). The bamboo curtain has since given way to the business model called the "bamboo network".[citation needed
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Second Cold War (2014 – ongoing)

In the Second Cold War, as China and its allies, including Russia, become more and more isolated from the rest of the world through sanctions, first from Russia's occupation of Crimea in 2014 and then from Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, the term bamboo curtain is experiencing a resurgence in usage and is frequently used to describe the sanction-imposed isolation of China and its allies.

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References

  1. ^ Jerry Vondas, "Bamboo Curtain Full of Holes, Pitt Profs Say After China Visits", Pittsburgh Press, 17 October 1980.
  2. ^ Robert D. Kaplan, "Lifting the Bamboo Curtain", The Atlantic, September 2008. Retrieved February 2009. https://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200809/burma
  3. ^ Martin Petty and Paul Carsten, "After decades behind the bamboo curtain, Laos to join WTO", Reuters, 24 October 2012.
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