Word: yuen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Saigon last week, protesting what they called inadequate support from Nationalist China, several hundred unhappy Chinese rioted, wrecked the Chinese legation, screamed denunciations at Chinese Minister Yuen Tse-kien. In Formosa's capital of Taipeh, Nationalist Foreign Minister George Yeh worried whether the Vietnamese demonstration was only the beginning: "We Chinese are being looked on as the Jews of Asia...
...Communists hide in the deepest jungle, draw supplies and information from the Min Yuen, a clandestine corps of Chinese sympathizers who live in small villages on the edge of the jungle. The British are gradually disposing of the Min Yuen by means of a resettlement project which aims at moving 400,000 "alien Chinese" (i.e., Chinese immigrants) away from known Communist areas. Combating the Communists there are now 110,000 police and 25,000 soldiers, including nine battalions of British, eight of Gurkhas, and four (soon to be six) of Malays. They are supported by some R.A.F. planes and Royal...