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There are White Thais (whose women wear mostly white), Black Thais (who wear black), and, more recently, Red Thais (from the political colors they wear), who have their own autonomous administration in southern Yunnan (Red China). But Thais, of one color or another, inhabit Viet Nam, Laos, Cambodia, Siam and northern Burma. In Laos the Communists have already set up their own puppet government (see above), but Communist propaganda speaks of "liberating" the Thai people as a whole and establishing among them a "Free Asian Republic...
...summer of 1951, Li Mi was ready to attack Red China. In a quick thrust, his men drove 50 miles into Yunnan. The Communists counterattacked and drove Li's men pell-mell back into Burma, but did not follow up their victory. Li Mi licked his wounds, lived off the land, extended his control over east Burma (see map). The weak Burmese government-which had won its independence only five years before from the British-was too busy fighting Karen rebels and two different camps of local Communists to deal with Li Mi's men. Growing stronger...
...China's Dr. Tingfu F. Tsiang replied: "This army of 12,000 . . . is not part of the army of the Republic of China. It calls itself the Yunnan AntiCommunist and National Salvation Army. It is not subject to control by my government." But, said Dr. Tsiang, his government, at the suggestion of the U.S., would 1) attempt to stop the collection of money from the people of Formosa for the Yunnan army; 2) refuse the clearance of airplanes chartered for the delivery of supplies to the border region. Added Tsiang: "Insofar as we can be said to have some...
...island named Phuquoc in the Gulf of Siam live 25,000 trim, tautly disciplined Chinese soldiers, who drill every day with wooden guns and wait for something to happen. They are Nationalist China's "forgotten army," the survivors of a once-beaten mass which was pushed out of Yunnan Province in the final days of the Chinese Communist victory, and made its way through rough mountain country into French Indo-China. There, three years ago, they were disarmed and interned by the French...
...local Communists, was also disturbed last week by the presence in Burma of remnants of Chiang Kai-shek's troops, led by General Li Mi. Defeated by the Communists in 1949, the Nationalist soldiers fled into Burma, last year made an unsuccessful foray into China's Yunnan Province. They now number about 10,000 men. Said Burma's U.N. Delegate U Myint Thein: "We are doing all we can to get them out of the country, but every time our troops go into action they disappear over friendly borders or into the thick jungles and mountains...