Word: kwangsi
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rhetorical battles that have raged between Peking and Hanoi since May, the principal casualties have been the Chinese residents of Viet Nam. Caught in a crossfire of conflicting national and political interests, 160,000 refugees have already made the trek across the Vietnamese border into China's Yunnan and Kwangsi provinces. The Viet Nam government has explained the exodus by charging that Peking's embassy in Hanoi had hired agents provocateurs to roil Viet Nam's 1.2 million Hoa (ethnic Chinese) and induce them to leave the country. Hanoi produced two such alleged agents who "confessed" that they had plotted...
...past two months, according to Peking, more than 102,000 refugees have streamed across the border into Yunnan province and the Kwangsi region, where emergency measures are being taken to resettle them on state farms and communes. Soon, Peking announced, it would dispatch ships to the Vietnamese coast in order to pick up its mistreated countrymen. In Hong Kong, leftist newspapers predicted that perhaps 300,000 more Chinese would emigrate from Viet Nam in the next few weeks...